re: Expectations
As a page-turner, I found it... adequate. I actually preferred the other one Brown wrote with the same character -- Angels and Demons -- perhaps because I read it first, and DVC immediately thereafter.
As conspiracy novels go, it will take a writer of far more brilliance than Brown to equal Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
I will probably not see the movie in the theatre (time, money, transportation all limited, as are movie houses in these parts), even though I'm an admirer of Ron Howard's work, and think Tom Hanks is our generation's Jimmy Stewart.
I predict a short theatrical run followed immediately by DVD release.
[By the way, Mary Anne: Thank you for bringing Ellis Peters and Lindsey Davis to my attention some years back!]