The Da Vinci Code

"Seek the truth."

2006 2h 29m EN

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6.7

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25%

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6.6

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★6.7TMDB · 10,358🥫25%Rotten Tomatoes●46Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 480,857

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Synopsis

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A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

“Seek the truth.”

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Cast

Tom Hanks
Robert Langdon
Audrey Tautou
Sophie Neveu
Ian McKellen
Sir Leigh Teabing
Jean Reno
Captain Bezu Fache
Paul Bettany
Silas
Alfred Molina
Bishop Manuel Aringarosa
Jürgen Prochnow
André Vernet
Jean-Yves Berteloot
Rémy Jean

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Rob Ballantyne, Temple Clark
Languages: English, French, Latin, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 6.1× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, French, Latin, Spanish.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Robert Langdon Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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356+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Ron Howard, shot by Salvatore Totino. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Ron Howard directs. Salvatore Totino behind the camera. Hans Zimmer scores. Daniel P. Hanley cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French, Latin, Spanish.

Trivia

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1$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 6.1× over at the box office.
3Released 20 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, French, Latin, Spanish.
5Part of the "Robert Langdon Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6356+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Ron Howard, shot by Salvatore Totino. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Daniel P. Hanley shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Seek the truth.".
12IMDB entry: tt0382625 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1310,358 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 48 themes, including "paris, france", "based on novel or book", "holy grail", "christianity".
15Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Salvatore Totino
Original score: Hans Zimmer
Editing: Daniel P. Hanley
Production design: Allan Cameron
Costume design: Daniel Orlandi
Makeup / hair: José Martin Romero
VFX supervisor: Richard Stammers
Sound: Daniel Pagan
Stunt coordinator: Dominique Julienne
Runtime: 149 min · 2h 29m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $125,000,000
Box office: $760,006,945
Return: 608% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes: 25% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 46/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 480,857 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

8 wins & 21 nominations total

Part of

Robert Langdon Collection

The Robert Langdon films are a series of American action-adventure mystery-thriller movies based on the novels written by Dan Brown. They center around the fictional character of Robert Langdon. Though based on the book series, the films have a different chronological order.

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John Chard2019-09-02
★ 7/10
Each breath you take is a sin. No shadow will be safe again, for you will be hunted by angels. The Da Vinci Code is directed by Ron Howard and adapted to screenplay by Akiva Goldsman from the novel of the same name written by Dan Brown. It stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina and Jürgen Prochnow. Music is scored by Hans Zimmer and cinematography by Salvatore Totino. When a man is murdered inside the Louvre, his body is found to be surrounded by cryptic messages. The police call in American symbology expert Robert Langdon (Hanks) to decode the clues. When he is joined by Parisian cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Tautou), it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it first seems and a mystery begins to unravel that could shake Christianity to its very core. Extended Cut (Blu-ray) Version Viewed. I haven't read the book! And I love treasure hunt/clue chasing movies! So I came to Ron Howard's hugely successful film (over $600 million in worldwide profit) bereft of literary pressure and with only a modicum of genre expectation. Perhaps this is why I'm apparently only in a small percentage of film lovers who really enjoyed the film? In spite of those gargantuan financial figures. Ultimately it's very safe film making, with a director and cast guaranteeing professionalism, but it weaves a magical mystery tour full of cryptic clues, secret organisations and cover ups. Yes, there is a good deal of corn thrown in as well, which inevitably stops the adaptation from being hyper intelligent. There's also an understanding on my part as to why many feel it's just too talky, but was the film ever going to be unfurled as an action movie blockbuster for the popcorn munching crowd, like National Treasure et al? It is a clever conspiracy thriller full of twists and turns with a outlandish revelation at the finale. It's also very appropriately performed by the cast (serio brooding and fret), and when McKellen joins the fray after an hour of film it has a little class as well, while Zimmer's score is a majestic blending of choir, strings and synths. I maintain that the film didn't deserve the critical whacking it got, but again I say I had a blank canvas going in for my first viewing. I wasn't sold to it because of controversy or had a saliva tinged mouth having worshipped at the altar of Dan Brown, I expected exactly what I got. A flawed but ever so intriguing adult mystery thriller, and not even Hanks' hair stopped me having a great time with the movie. 7/10
Peter McGinn2021-07-18
★ 6/10
Writing this review might be considered an act of vanity. Until recently I was among the very few who hadn’t seen The Da Vinci Code, or even read the book. But now I have done so — watch the movie, that is. I still have no plans to read the book. But is there anyone left out there who might benefit from a review? Mostly I thought the movie was rather silly. Oh, I know that the book was researched about as well as your average documentary, and that the plot is intricate and suitably complex for a thriller. Like a spy thriller, it develops that the two heroes can never be sure who they can trust. In fact, the short answer seems to be “No one!” There are plenty of plot twists, reverses and surprising revelations, some nifty but others that are utterly predictable. But it lost some of its credibility for me near the beginning when the female lead drove her car at a high rate of speed in reverse in and around traffic, faster than most drivers could manage driving forward. Really? There is a lot of action in the movie, but it lacks the exuberance and humor of a classic like Raiders of the Lost Ark. I guess religion is a serious business.
CinemaSerf2025-02-22
★ 6/10
This had all the ingredients and even a self-flagellating Paul Bettany so what happened? Well it all started strongly enough with the aforementioned man perpetrating a mysterious killing in the Louvre museum. It turns out that the victim is one of the museum’s curators and when the police discovers that his body has been defaced with ancient symbols, they call in “Sophie” (Audrey Tautou) to investigate. She, in turn, invites acclaimed American professor “Langdon” (Tom Hanks) to help find out what this might all mean, and swiftly there are embroiled in the machinations of a legendary society that has it’s roots stretching back to the very beginnings of Christianity. Indeed, as they try to stay one step ahead of these people who would have them dead, too - and who have a multitude of connections throughout French society and government - they begin to suspect that the Holy Grail might be the ultimate goal here as their travels take them, ably assisted by “Sir Leigh Teabing” (Sir Ian McKellen), to a burial site in London reputedly connected with the crusades. The supporting cast includes Jean Reno and Alfred Molina and the story itself is thick with religiosity and controversy, but the end product is really a bit of a damp squib. I think that’s probably because Hanks hasn’t the gravitas to anchor this well enough. Even his looks of panic lack any credible sincerity and there’s precious little by way of chemistry with the adequate Tautou. Bettany does better, he does manage to exude a little of the maniacal zealot and Reno always manages to play the slightly dodgy French cop convincingly but for the most part this is just dialogue heavy with too many clues transcribed straight from the text of Dan Brown’s novel without Ron Howard seeming to remember that this is a visual medium and sometimes it’s more fun for us to be given a few detecting tasks of our own to figure out. It’s long, but that needn’t have mattered had we been more involved in the unravelling of this intriguing mystery. We were not, though, and that makes it a little too ploddingly descriptive for me, sorry.