Da Vinci Code

I have read the book, but haven’t watched the movie yet. I will but not too excited.
Read Da Vinci Code just like ride an incomplete roller coaster. You fasten the seat belt, the roller coaster is getting up up and up and so is your adrenalin. You so excited what will go on. As you reach the top, the coaster suddenly ends. The comment would be: THAT’s IT!!

I think there’s a big hole at the end of the story. This hole is not based on the expert point of view though. It just based on the view of ordinary reader.
The Holy Grail mystery that is revealed by Robert Langdon (the main character) apparently is Jesus and Maria Magdalena bloodline. This Langdon take a risk of his own life, be a fugitive, spent lots of time and effort, use his brain to break great puzzle just for a bloodline?? What we gonna do with a bloodline nowadays? She’s a human the same like us. Beside we don’t find any spiritual aura in her. So there’s nothing special. We through an evolution and if we don’t have qualities that our ancestor have, it’s fine.

Don’t you feel a little bit useless? OK, finally Langdon get together with Sophie. They’re happy. But still the comment would be: that’s it! You don’t have to risk your life to get a girl, right? At the end of the story Langdon and Sophie plan a date. It’s just a date, the initial phase of relationship. There are many possibilities waiting there for example they’re broke.

The novel shall not reward the main character with personal happy ending only, but it should pay attention to reader satisfaction because this is a quest and the reader involve thoroughly in a packet of 631 pages (Indonesian edition). They deserve to be thrill and satisfy too. Unfortunately, I don’t find them in this novel. I am disappointed.

However, I found many interesting thing in the novel such as Louvre collection, Da Vinci masterpiece, anagram, riddle, history, cryptex, myth, etc. I love it! Gosh it would be great if the ending can match the journey part. Maybe the ending must be replaced with Indiana Jones movie :P :P.

FYI: I have more enthusiasm to watch Scarie Movie 4 instead of Da Vinci Code.