This review will be short. I just want to say a little about this over-hyped poorly reviewed movie. I, as many of us have, read this book. I thought the book was over-hyped and too-well reviewed. In other words, I didn't much like the book. It was just too much of everything for me. On the other hand, Alex loved it. Hope and Coleen have both said they liked it. I did not.

Now there is the movie. And I liked it. What was over done in the book was not (as much) in the movie. The time is just too compressed to overload it with so much nonsense.

Here's the plot: Respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache (Jean Reno). Langdon is soon the primary suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet . Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), who happens to be the dead historian's grand-daughter, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles in order to solve the murder and stay ahead of the police. Along the way, the origins of Christianity are examined, questioned, pulled apart, and put together again.

Tom Hanks is very good, and, as usual, Ron Howard directs the action well. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays Jacques Sauniere, an old friend of Langdon, and he steals the movie with the best lines and best delivery by far.

It's pretty good.