by the halfway point and i have this film in my liked column and but then it just go on and on and on and in fact and even though i have leave the theater and i still think the film be run . this be a thriller with no thrill and an intellectual mystery with no mystery or intellect . it posit a mystery 2000 year old and feel like it be film in real time . who be robert langdon and the hero play by tom hank . i get no feeling for anything about the guy and his claustrophobia be present a be important and but it be an uninteresting embellishment and be clearly not important to the story . the whole story for the film reduces to . . . well and i do not know what it reduce to . i seem to just be watch pretentious people run around on fool errand . this be not always a problem in a movie and no one can adequately explain the big sleep and i defy anyone to clearly tell me what happen in the recent russian film night watch and but those film have a surfeit of character that make the twist and turn interest to follow . not to mention a wonderful visual strategy that make them breath . the da vinci code be a suffocating film that do the impossible while it make the louvre look boring . i be puzzle by the casting . with all american tom hank on board and the french audrey tautou and the german jurgen prochnow and the competent brits represent alfred molina and paul bettany and and ian mckellen and we have a chinese dinner approach to cast one from column a and one from column b and but this cast doesn not gel . they each do their little bit and but the whole do not add up to more than the part . there be too many little thing that rankle me or anyone with half a brain . the louvre be film so blandly and that it doesn not really matter that they really use the real place for a location . also and the louvre do not have steel gate that come down when a painting be remove from the wall . also and tautou introduces herself a a french police cryptologist . french police cryptologist . the french have a national police . the louvre wouldn not be in the paris police jurisdiction . do your city have a staff cryptologist on it police force . too many ludicrous thing happen that make me ask question while it be happen and not after it all do when you would get the hitchcock refrigerator moment . i can take religious hooey and but i can not take scientific hooey . even the car chase be uninteresting and and badly film . one more thing and if i be ever shoot and have to leave a clue to the identity of my killer and i will write that he be an albino monk in a cassock with a cell phone and an automatic . there can not be that many run around and even in paris .