After that, I vowed that I would never see another Tom Hanks movie again.
I may have been more interested in the movie itself (I'll never know for sure), if I had not seen several great series on THC on The Da Vinci Code, also with Beyond The Da Vinci Code, based on book Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, The Templar Code and also several other segments on the history of Knights Templar.
When I saw the movie, it was not nearly as interesting as the THC series which I have on DVDs. The "thriller" (chases and killings) part was insipid, not thrilling and the rest of it was already debunked.
I did enjoy very much a movie National Treasure that had all the thrill of chases and adventure, and was conducive to getting someone interesting in our history - with a little Templar and Freemason stories thrown in, also not a bad starting point as subjects of interest.
BTW, Tom Hank's wife's name is Rita Wilson (no relation to Charlie Wilson or Joe Wilson of Valerie Plame-Wilson fame), she is also an actor and played in several of his movies.
Apparently there is a Da Vinci sequel that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are working on now.
Interesting fact : Tom Hanks made over $70M, the most for single film of his career, for Forrest Gump which was adapted from the Winston Groom novel. In the original contract, Groom waived his upfront fee in exchange for a percentage of the film's profits. However, when Groom requested his share of the $677M worldwide take, Paramount refused, claiming that the film never actually made any money. Paramount then asked Groom for the movie rights to his sequel, Gump and Co., so they could film it as well. Groom refused. Rumors were that Hanks also refused to participate in Forrest Gump sequel, but for a different reason.