![]() He delivers some great one liners too - a real character actor playing a real character. Sir Ian McKellan too, it totally fantastic, and really steals most scene's he appears in. The casting of the movie is surely one of it's stronger points - Paul Bettany is almost unrecognisable and plays the menacing single minded Silas to utter perfection. Having read the book, I did have a knowledge of the various groups and factions involved - I'm not sure how someone who hasn't read the book will fair though. ![]() Once I settled into it though - it was a thoroughly enjoyable, occasionally slow moving thriller. I generally like Tom Hanks in almost all his roles, however I found that I had such a pre-conception of what Robert Langdon should be, that it took me about half an hour to get used to Hanks occupying this character. I can't say I was blown away by The Da Vinci Code - as is often the case, the book was far superior.
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