Christian opponents may have been given a blessing in disguise in their battle to expose the many lies in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which has been turned into a major motion picture that will hit theatres worldwide this Friday.

It sucks.

This apparent fact has only recently emerged after the film drew poor reviews at the Cannes Film Festival earlier today. Yahoo reported that the 149-minute long movie "drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs from arguably the world's toughest movie crowd" regarding the response from those at Cannes.

Roger Friedman of FOXNews.com attacked the acting of leads Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, saying that they "often come off more as Mulder and Scully in 'The X Files' than as passionately charged leads."

Friedman continued, this time attacking the film's climatic moments when he said that "when the big reveal comes, the audience I was with was so uncomfortable that they laughed at the wrong moment. I suspect that won't be the case when the film plays in theaters; regular audiences are going to take this seriously. But I wish it had been done a different way."

The Boston Globe, generally regarded as a newspaper that sides with the Left, did not seem to take the film well, either. Writer Peter Brunette said, "I didn't like it very much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks was a zombie, thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music and it was much too grandiose."

"At the high point, there was laughter among the journalists. Not loud laughs, but a snicker and I think that says it all," said Gerson Da Cunha from The Times of India.

Some of the reviews were exceedingly harsh.

Joe Utichi of Filmfocus.com called it, "perhaps an interesting side-piece to those already fanatical about the book, but ultimately a lifeless adaptation that reveals the flaws of its source. So Dark, the Con of Dan Brown."

"A melodramatic, sometimes lifeless film that is missing the suspense of the popular novel," were the words of USA Today's Claudia Puig.

The Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rea said, "The Da Vinci Code may be controversial and even heretical -- but worse, still, it's plodding, tedious, deathly dull."

"It was really disappointing. The dialogue was cheesy. The acting wasn't too bad, but the film is not as good as the book," added Lina Hamchaoui, from British radio IRN.

"It's a movie about whether the greatest story ever told is true or not, and it's not the greatest movie ever screened, is it?" said Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London's Daily Mail. "As a thriller, well," he continued before shrugging.

"Maybe the next day I'll forget about it," said Igor Soukmanov of Unistar Radio in Belarus.

"I kept thinking of the Energizer Bunny, because it kept going and going and going, and not in a good way," said CBS 5 (San Fransisco)'s James Rocchi.

Boston Herald writer Stephen Schaefer wrote about some of the things he overheard at the festival regarding the film. Some of the ones he noted were:

"It's not really interesting. The plot is in some ways ridiculous and the laughter was justified."

"It seems even more ridiculous on the screen than in the book. It's just awful. If I were Tom Hanks I'd be hanging my head in shame."

"Too long. And boring. If you want to see a movie about the Holy Grail, see 'Indiana Jones'."

Schaefer went on to tell Reuters, "Nothing really works. It's not suspenseful. It's not romantic. It's certainly not fun."

Things got so bad at Cannes that some critics walked out during the final minutes of the movie. Perhaps what was most shocking was that not a single pair of hands were clapping, a clear sign that the critics did not like the film at all. Even bad movies draw a handful of claps at Cannes.

Needless to say but I'll say it anyways because I cannot stand the film (and am in the process or working on my protest of the film's release), things are not looking good for those who support the "Code."