I liked the book, it was a taut exciting mystery. I was looking forward to the movie. I love Tom Hanks and Ron Howard is usually a reliable director. The movie had people running around alot, from church to church but I didn't care. The end was well done. It was nice to see landmarks in Rome, that was tough to visualize from the book and I've been to Rome about 6 times. It'd be fun to watch before visiting again.