Everything about this potboiler irks me, from the pained expression plastered throughout on Paul Bettany's psycho albino monk's face to Tom Hanks' academic hair, not to mention the preposterous pairing of History Channel Templar history with 'Harvard scholar' code-breaking of the "hold it up to a mirror" and "invisible lemon juice ink" variety, and besides, who can enjoy a movie associated with the marketing brouhaha that erupted in the media in 2006 over Dan Brown's book's theories involving the Catholic Church when in fact these controversies about Opus Dei and Mary Magdalene pale in comparison to real-life scandals and cover-ups?
★★☆☆☆
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