Unlocking DaVinci's Code

Starring:Patrick Macnee
Studio: Hanover House
Product Type: DVD

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If you read the book and you liked it, then this DVD is worth seeing
A waste of time and money
Worthless
Mainly just another capitalizing wanabe
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Unlocking DaVinci's Code: Mystery or Conspiracy?
Starring: Patrick Macnee
Manufacturer: Ventura
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Release Date: 2004-07-13

Description

Centuries of conspiracy unmasked in this documentary! Discover the hidden meaning inside the greatest art in history as host Patrick MacNee reveals the secrets to the strange riddles and clues within the masterpieces of Leonardo DaVinci. Revealed for the first time ever on DVD, the controversial link between Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and Leonardo DaVinci. Explore the secret society that includes DaVinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli and Victor Hugo. Unlocking DaVinci's Code reveals the greatest mysteries of our time and the greatest secrets of our past.

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If you read the book and you liked it, then this DVD is worth seeing.......2006-07-04

I am very surprised at the poor reviews. Yes this is a low budget documentary. But, this documentary sheds light on issues brought up in the book. It is great to actually see inside places like the Roslyn Chapel. I really is not about Da Vinci but the secrets within the book - Knights Templar, Mary Magdelene, etc. I found this DVD fascinating and informative just after reading the book.

A waste of time and money.......2006-03-29

One star is generous. This "documentary" is intellectual and historical bunk. British accents do not create credibility in a film that has less than a late night infomercial. Don't waste the money. I've already wasted enough time (and I've yet to affix the merchandise return label).

Worthless.......2005-12-13

About the only thing you'll find out from watching this so called documentary is that "La Gioconda", also known as the "Mona Lisa", and Leonardo DaVinci's name can all be decoded to add up to the number 84.

What's the significance of that? The documentary doesn't tell you. After this revelation, it veers off into some unfocused side story about some monk in France who built a shrine to Mary Magdalene, a story about the gnostics, and some supposedly secret societies formed around the holy grail.

If you know about the DaVinci Code, you know it has to do with an alternate telling of the Bible, and pretty much dispels most of what the catholic church has supposedly stood for all these centuries, etc. The main argument is that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' girlfriend, had relations with him, and that we're all descendants of Jesus, blah, blah, blah.

Whether you believe in this alternate theory or not is up to you, but don't look for this documentary to reveal any correlation to any supposed "code" DaVinci lived by.

Mainly just another capitalizing wanabe.......2005-11-29

This "documentary" is another one of the groups trying to capitalize on the success of Dan Brown's The Davinci Code. If any of these are serious about their topic I really hope they keep in mind that the book is in the fiction section. Though sometimes more has been made about the research Dan Brown has done then should be noted, the fact is it is a story even if there are some ideas derived from legend. Legends are generally not real either and many have nothing based in reality.

Before you get all tied up into the cover-up conspiracy of the church you should watch and read about the historical evidence from real scholars. Do yourself a favour and watch The God Who Wasn't There" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CAPZBC/002-1128172-2217665) and then the whole DaVinci's Code will seem irrelevant.

If you still love the whole DaVinci's Code mystery then there are other dvds that are better done.

View the review, not the movie.......2005-04-22

As the overly loud background music begins slightly, to fade out, the camera rests on a large jowled, older professor type of a man with a fake sounding English accent. This, the opening scene of Unlocking Da Vinci's Code, a "documentary" by Ventura studios, is the most realistic shot of the film. From bad reenactments to worse research, the film is unreliable and sadly, still on the shelves. Touted as a "behind the scenes" look at Da Vinci's artworks, the bust of a film plays off of the recent success of the novel The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. Spending only 15 minutes out of an hour long film discussing Da Vinci, the poorly plotted "exploratory" and "revolutionary" movie is a waste of space and worth no stars, on a five star rating.
The experts called on within this film were dreadfully inadequate. For the beginning half, the only commentaries by "experts in the field" were from the co-authors of The Templar Revelation. Now, as a whole, authors are not a bad group. These ones even had a realistic sounding English accent! But as the "facts" behind Da Vinci are revealed, one wishes for more than a solitary source. Later, as more experts are interviewed, the credibility increases. Until one realizes that these "experts" in Christian history are professors of such colleges as Western Michigan University, and Canislus College. Where were all of the professors of well-known colleges? Were they too busy with real documentaries to participate in a backyard film?
The rambling subject matter also leaves much to be desired. Introduced as a film on Da Vinci's secret messages, an enthralling subject for those interested, the only time past the first 15 minutes Da Vinci was discussed was in the second to last sentence of the movie. Worse than a middle school history presentation, this professional and "factual" documentary has no coherent thesis or connection throughout. After discussing the Knights Templar, with the helpful two experts, the narrator moves on to a hardly known topic of the Cathars, apparently a Gnostic branch of the Christian church. Barely relating the two secretive and outlawed sections of the Church, the plotline moves on to the history of the Bible. Now, Da Vinci did have some beef with Christianity, and Catholicism as a whole. But how did Da Vinci, born 1500 years later, influence the writing of the Bible? Not content with this distant connection, narration takes us to the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which apparently were the source of Da Vinci's mysterious and enigmatic paintings. Unless Da Vinci had a time machine, which he might have, the movie failed to cover any of his inventions, it would have been impossible for Da Vinci to gain inspiration from the collection of scrolls found in 1947, almost 500 years after Da Vinci's death.
Beside the total lack of connection between scenes, the worst part of the film would have been the reenactments. For around 20 parts in the scenes, there were a grand total of 5 actors. There were 3 different sets for the entire movie, which had several different scenes. The pope and the Egyptian were played by the same person, utterly confusing a typical viewer. The Egyptian discoverers of the Dead Sea Scrolls were apparently quite fluent in English for camel herders. The staged and awful "fight" scenes were played with swords made of aluminum foil or plastic.
I recommend this movie only to my least favorite person and that only if he or she seriously annoys me. Do not watch this and become convinced of the "truths" that were told. Although some were true, it was from The Da Vinci Code that these screenwriters gleaned all of their ideas. The movie was a waste of an hour and not worth even this lengthy review.

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DaVinci's Code sketchy

Unlocking DaVinci's Code
Starring: Patrick Macnee
Manufacturer: Hanover House
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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DaVinci's Code sketchy.......2005-01-14

There was not enough actual information presented to satisfy my curiosity. Where can we get more information on this subject? This should have been included in the DVD, in my opinion. Gnosticism is a subject of interest that I felt should have been expanded on, or at least more information leading to further study of this subject of the lasted finds should have been presented. The graphics and pictorial presentations were well worth viewing the DVD. The sight mentioned at the end www.crystalent.com only contains names of other material, but not where to obtain them, so I searched amazon.com which lead to this comment. Give us more....

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