I had to smile at your first sentence, GUEST,BS - clearly you are unaware of Joe's background. Your second and third sentence say more about yourself anyway.

As for the Code story: I read the book late in the game and found Dan Brown's writing style crude and boring - John Le Carre or Patricia Cornwell he definitely isn't. Even Tom Clancy's writing is better than Brown's. So he took an interesting urban myth and turned it to mush, as far as I am concerned. As for the plot, after the third iteration of "you think you cracked it, ah but here comes another bit" it got so samey in structure that I really had to try hard to keep an interest till the end of the book. So: good story, crap writer.

After that I lost interest, and will not be watching the film. Shame, because Tom Hanks is my all time favourite actor (Tim Robbins a close second); but as I found the original book annoying, I cannot imagine that the film-of-the-book will grip me.