Audrey Tautou is Pretty but Spiky

Imaginably the most heated film of this year is the adaptation of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Two time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks enacts Harvard symbologist who's out to discern "the biggest cover up in human history." The excitement that surrounded the flick died down as the movie got a lukewarm reactions from critics when it premiered in the recent Cannes Film Festival. In my humble opinion, Ron Howard don't do crappy flicks, but he doesn't do great flicks either. As for writer Akiva Goldsman, I am no longer pinning my anticipation on his screenplays ever since he composed Batman and Robin.

But personally I think the biggest object of Howard's and Goldsman's crappy adaptation of the outstanding best-seller is French actress Audrey Tautou, who I first saw few years ago in the French film Amelie. She was very cute in that character, plus the flick was amusing. The Da Vinci Code was apparently Tautou's biggest break into Hollywood, but sadly her talent and attractiveness was reduced to a purely talking penny. Playing French Cryptographer Agent Sophie Nevue, all that Tautou did for the entire two-or-more hours of the flick was throw questions that Hanks answered with a very long chronicle, slash a sloppy-edited flashback sequence. I can forgive the cacophonic Parisian accent since she's playing a French character, and I can't think of any other actress in the part, but the loose characterization of Sophie was just frustrating. If Howard and Goldsman will in any way get their hands on the Angels & Demons project, I'll be the first one to hit the streets out of disapproval, but not just in the same post as with the Vatican bishops.