A friend of mine saw it and said it's a fictionalized mystery.
What about a mystery that postulates that Lincoln was assassinated by Booth after Booth got wind that Lincoln was about to use Sherman's army to drive Congress out of town and to set himself up as emperor? More to the point wehat about a mystery that involves the asssination of a Muslim scholar who has evidence that the Koran was a fabrication of the Arab generals who boiled out of the desert in 640 and fell on the Greeks and the Persians, that Mohammed never really existed or was the addled figurehead of these warriors. Yep, I can see boths being made into major motion pictures.
That's what Satan wanted him to think... (sarcasm off)
It is, but you'd be surprised at the number of people who have bought into it as fact. And of course the author, Dan Brown, had gotten caught up in all the hype. After all, it means millions more for him.
Yeah right, they always use the lives and names of actual historical figures in "fiction" books and movies. Calling it "fiction" is how these scumbags hide behind their filthy attack on the Christian faith.
Just call it "National Treasure" meets "Indiana Jones" with a script written in King James English by an Episcopal Bishop who "feels" God is doing a new thing because His Son shacked up with Mary Magdalene whose body was whisked away by the Knights Templar and turned over to Opus Dei Catholics so Leonardo DaVinci would figure out where her body was going to be after several centuries and put clues to its whereabouts in a super secret device that only someone in the 21st century could figure out.
*sigh*
Well, at least the popcorn was good.
If people have a need of fictionalized mystery, there are many other movies to give that pleasure. I don't think that is the reason people go to this movie or read the book.
What people want is an atmosphere of lies and deceit and murder by chuch authorities. Throw in the heretical idea that Christ married and had a child, and you have a recipe for what people really want.