I had hopes going in, fueled by all the successful mainstream examples of standard-issue fiction ("Jaws") or outright lousy kitsch ("The Bridges of Madison County") turned into far, far superior pictures. Ian McKellen, playing a Holy Grail enthusiast, is also on hand to remind us that English actors tend to be better than American ones at simultaneously enlivening and showing up a second-rate Hollywood thriller. But Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), noted police cryptologist and gamine, is on hand to get the plot ball rolling, though it doesn't roll so much as rock, unsteadily. Summoned to the Louvre, Langdon quickly comes under the suspicion of the dogged Inspector Bezu Fache (Jean Reno). Before he expires, the curator leaves an absurd number of clues regarding his big secret. Late one evening, Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is murdered by a self-flagellating albino monk (Paul Bettany) in the employ of a devious bishop (Alfred Molina). (For some reason this bugs me more than any of the more outre suppositions involving Jesus and Mary M. Laboring beneath a haircut that might be called "academic Dutch Boy," Hanks portrays the noted Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon, who may be smart but not smart enough to realize Harvard doesn't have a professor of symbology.
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