CANFIELD REVIEWS THE DA VINCI CODE

Dear Lord, (this is meant literally- I’m not just sputtering- if you wish to not hear what I say to the Lord go farther down) has there ever been so much written about so little? What’s a poor reviewer to do / Not reviewing The Da Vinci Code seems unsatisfactory somehow. Why review it at all? The obvious answers are:

It’s a big summer release based on one of the best selling books of all time.

It comes to us courtesy of an ad campaign that openly invites criticism of it’s many literary/cinematic, and more important historical, sins.

It is by a director whose work I have come to loathe.

It stars some of my favorite performers.

So Lord, forgive me if I do a bad job writing this review, forgive Dan Brown for writing The Da Vinci Code, and forgive everyone who misunderstands both of us- poor scribes, not that gifted. But Lord, by all means send your righteous judgment on the marketing execs and minions who use us all to make a buck. May they burn eternally – in your mercy.