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Symbology, is guilty of the murder, bring him to the Louvre, hoping to trick him into a confession or some kind of selfincrimination. Enter Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist with the French Judicial Police. She tells Langdon that he is in danger and that the police wish to charge him with the curator’s murder. Why is she doing this? Because she is related to the dead man and she knows that Langdon could not have killed him.

From there, the two go on the run while simultaneously trying to figure out who the murderers were and what secret the curator and three others took to their deaths. It is a quest to penetrate the secrets of the centimes old organization known as the Prioiy of Sion. The Priory’s mission is keep secret the location of the Holy Grail. Using his wits and the assistance of Sophie Neveu and English Grail Scholar Leigh Tbabing (Ian McKellen), Langdon follows the clues from a murder scene in the Louvre, across France and eventually into London.

Arrayed against Langdon are the French Police, a Catholic Bishop, a vicious albino monk and their mysterious patron known only as the Teacher. They wish to prevent Langdon from discovering the secret of the Holy Grail; a secret they believe will devastate the Catholic Church and Christians all over the world.

The reveal itself is fascinating enough to convey what it wants to convey, namely, that religion has an origin, and by accepting it dogmatically, we do ourselves a disservice in the pursuit of human truths. The so-called controversy that the movie heats up isn’t so much more than a call to have an open mind, particularly within an aspect of the human experience — spirituality — that has operated and thrived, on many historical occasions, through closed-mindedness. The movie is rated PG-13. Run time is 149 minutes.