I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Thanks for the memories!

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

If you're not one of the 450 trillion* people who have read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, for the purposes of this review you should know that it is an adventure/thriller in the tradition of The Celestine Prophecy that unearths a conspiracy theory surrounding the church and the falsification of history, specifically Jesus Christ's mantle as the only son of God. Some of Brown's book is based in fact, and it's this which documentary Cracking the Da Vinci Code sets out to explore.An interesting premise soon turns to farce as a bunch of unwashed intellectuals make fanciful interpretations of Leonardo Da Vinci's artworks, then move beyond the borders of common sense by claiming the carved cubes in a Scottish church might actually be a code that unlocks the truth about the Christian religion. It's so wacky, you almost expect them to burst out laughing – but nope, they're deadly serious. Adding insult to idiocy, the Yank narrator mispronounces "Thames" and "Edinburgh". It's entirely possible that Christianity was adulterated somewhere along the line for nefarious purposes, but this undergraduate fairy story takes us no closer to discovering the truth – or anything else.*This may not be the exact number, but it's probably pretty close.

"Cracking the Da Vinci Code" is just like every other one of those documentaries on the so called controversial book "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. This documentary takes you to all the places mentioned in the book and bores the living daylights out of you. I didn't want to hear authors blabbing on about the whole controversy. It's getting annoying. The Worst Part of this Documentary will definitely have to be the expert interviews. I always had to fast-forward past them because i wanted to remain alive after the documentary ended. Simon Ocx has done a poor performance with this and i don't know why i spent $30 on the DVD when i will never watch the stupid thing again.The Only Good Part is seeing the paintings and the buildings. I don't care about what experts say.

Previous comments on this documentary have been quite negative, but they were obviously looking to be entertained not informed. While it is a bit dry, the information is good and worth seeing. The book is great and I look forward to the movie with Tom Hanks. This piece is helping me prepare to enjoy that movie more by showing the places, artwork, and other items that will be portrayed in the movie and appeared in the book. Also read Brown's other books if you want to get a bit of his preparation for this book. I like the way he thinks and tells a story, even if the story is a whopper. This documentary is not a "Bowling for Columbine" nor any other of Michael Moore's pseudo-documentary "Let's make a Buck while telling them it's the truth" hogwash. Thank God! Documentary films are supposed to be informative and accurate, not necessarily controversial or entertaining.

Everyone loves a mystery right? Well that I guess was my excuse for watching this, but within about fifteen minutes I had come to realize my decision was misguided.For a start the production values are shoddy - crappy electronic music that is supposed to set a sinister mood but only succeeds in annoying and budget cinematography.But these problems could have been overcome if the documentary (I hesitate to call it that, its really like a piece of fan worship for a mediocre novel, much like an amateur fan website) if it had any credible evidence or a coherent narrative.The "experts" interviewed were very scant and seemed to lack any academic credentials. Often they would say things like "this could mean that" or "this must mean this" when what they really had was a lack of anything remotely approaching evidence.This is a documentary for the type of people who are convinced there is scientific basis for astrology. It could have been a lot better if it had been an analysis of the legends of the knights templar and the priory of sion.