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The year most anticipated movie, successfully landed in Malaysia without a single cut. Poor neighbour Thailand that had taken out the final 10 minutes of the movie due to some protest from religious group.

Not that Christian society in Malaysia never display objection, but to be able to realize where on earth our feet is stepping will answer why the film is a not problem at all here. So, the movie got an 18PL rating.

Many kiasu beings started to book the tickets in advance not wanting to be the last to know of the so-big-hit this summer. Well, I’m probably one of them too, who wanted to catch this flick minus the hassle of going through the calling. I’m just lucky to have good friends who will plan & materialize things. Thank you!!!!

Actually, I don’t know much until I read the book. My first time ever, flipping through hundred pages of the-thick-Dan Brown’s book, sold 50 million worldwide in multiple languages. Reading a book prior to the movie! Not Harry Potter, Narnia neither but The DaVinci Code. Inside me, I have this escalated feeling imagining how it would be to have known the story in details, presented in the wide screen ahead of me. I’d love to see the Lourve, The Monalisa, The Last Supper, the cilice, etcetera, etcetera. Things that have been so comprehensive explained for our imaginative mind to wonder.

We are about to lost our cinema seats, being 5 minutes before the booking release. And the ticket attendant seems to hesitate to sell me the tickets, asking me if I am udner 18. Pardon me? I thought I heard wrongly, and she prompted me again asking what my age is. Amused and disbelief, “Huh?” Being polite, I told her I’m 27 this year, only then she processed the tickets. While giving the tickets and my change, she reminded again if prompted for IC while entering the hall, there won’t be any refund as when I fail to get in coz the movie is for age 18 – 18PL. What am I suppose to react ah? Hahahaa…

What have elaborated inside the book, the opening, in quite a number of chapters took merely 15 minutes, rushed in movie. That fast, the adventure begins. Where are all the tiny details in the book that make us not giving in reading, page after page? Huhuhuhu… so monotonous, no excitement in the movie at all… In fact, the movie shortened a lot of scenes in the book… like the part how Proffesor Langdon got called by Collet, how Sophie and Robert runaway from Lourve, and worst 2 cryptex become 1. There are things that are not told inside the title, but are in the movie. And we can’t cling to the ending that is different from the book, instead of being discovered by Grandmother… it’s now Robert who helped Sophie to reveal her true identity, and the sudden appearance of so many knights who have keeping an eye on her all this while. Bull shit man! Nevertheless, I still like the albino monk, Silas in the movie. His role is so outstanding in the film, not to be mistaken that I like his naked butts but I felt pity for his suffering.

My review, this is. I’m not sure whether to have read the book before the movie is good or bad. To some extent, I think the book gave far more interesting insights and better understanding in DaVinci, the movie. I think many who have not read the book might have difficulty grasping the story. However, because the book has already delivered the fiction superbly… it has shoot up my adrenaline to watch the film, only to be disappointed with boringness in the hall for 2 hours 20 minutes. *Yawn*Yawn.

I came out cinema and I told myself never to read another movie title again. Just watch the movie and be entertained!