It also may just be one of those stories that knowing how it came out in the end just spoiled it too badly to hold interest for the length of the movie.
There is one gigantic point of comedy here. Earlier this year we had riots worldwide due to a couple of tired old cartoons in a Danish magazine. The liberal press wrung their hands about how "they respect Muslims" ... indeed they do respect the violence and threats of violence used by the Muslims.
Of course, they have no problem reporting on a movie that claims that Christ was "just a man", there is no power in the blood of Christ, and he never rose from the dead. While the movie points to the Catholic church, and Opus Dei as sinister and violent, the lack of bloodletting or even any threats thereof show pretty clearly that Christianity is far different from Islam. Is it possible for people to be so blind that they can't see the difference in MSM treatment of DaVinci Code vs the cartoons? I suppose the blind will always find a way to remain blind.
The movie is fiction, and obviously fiction. Were any of the secret organizations depicted nearly as powerful as Brown makes them out to be, he would be long dead. The Christian faith has little problem in standing up to challenges like Brown's, and has no need to "duck and cover" by prohibiting believers from seeing it, or threatening violence against those that created it. Star Trek isn't real either (although I know some folks this is a shock to) ... but it is still entertaining.
If things had to be true to be entertaining, there would be no reason to listen to NPR!
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