National Treasure for people that think they're cultured, a 2h30m exposition dump masquerading as scholarly literature, hundreds of years of art and history broadly packaged into aggressively artless and subtext-free conspiratorial tedium. No bigger indication of exactly what this is than how hanks' langdon is a harvard professor of 'symbology'—and opens the film by explaining to a bunch of normies that this is, of course, the study of signs and symbols and their meaning or interpretation throughout history—despite the fact that 1) 'symbol' is in the goddamn name and 2) this is not an existing field of study. 'semiotics' is, but i guess that might have confused too many people, and god forbid you don't condescendingly hold the audiences hand for two seconds even when you're writing what amounts to bible fan-fiction.