Inferno

Possibly Ron Howard's worst film with one contrived situation after another in this convoluted mess of a Da Vinci Code spin off. While the basic premise isn't bad, in fact it was a steal from the Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service where a mad scientist wants to kill off half the world's population. What made it as hokey as a Mission Impossible script was one absurd action scene after another where the hero played by Tom Hanks can't seem to shake off people looking for him. The big shocker is when his apparent savior former star of Chalet Girl, Felicity Jones turns out to be another of his enemies.Overall as silly as many low budget B movies.

The geneticist Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) is hunted down by three men and commits suicide from the top of a tower in Florence. Zobrist believes that the Earth's population that has an exponential growth should be reduced in 50% to save the other 50%. In Florence, Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) awakens in a hospital with no memory of the last two days and with daydreams and dreadful visions. Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) explains that he has a head trauma cause by a bullet that scratched his head and he would recover his memory in a few days. Out of the blue, a doctor tells that the police wants to interrogate him and a police officer, who is indeed the killer Vayentha (Ana Ularu), shoots the doctor but Sienna and Langdon succeeds to escape to her apartment. Langdon finds a Faraday pointer in the pocket of his jacket and when they project the image, they see the Map of Dante's Inferno by Sandro Botticelli. They contact the American Consulate but give the wrong address nearby the apartment. Soon the area is under siege of the World Health Organization (WHO) agents and the local police, including Vayentha, and Langdon and Sienna conclude that Zobrist has created a virus to annihilate the world's population. But who can be trusted? "Inferno" completes the trilogy of Dan Brown based on the adventures of Professor Robert Langdon with a totally disappointing and predictable story. The screenplay is a mess and the camera work and edition are awful. Robert Langdon is a superman since he is wounded and with amnesia, but capable of run, jump over the walls, recalls details such as hidden passages and door in different locations etc. The plot point with Sienna Brooks is totally predictable and it was obvious that she had teamed up with Langdon to find where the virus is. The romance between Langdon and Elizabeth Sinskey, performed by the unknown Sidse Babett Knudsen, has no chemistry. In the end, "Inferno" is absolutely forgettable. My vote is five. Title (Brazil): "Inferno"

What a hideous piece of virulent, vomitous excrement. The producers truly must have hit Tom Hanks over the head to make him sign up for this sloppy, vacuous piffle. And if you think I'm taking liberties with the English language, that's NOTHING compared to the liberties that Ron Howard took with this gripping, provocative novel by Dan Brown. I'll ignore the lame beginning (endless dream sequences of Hell) and the middle (senseless scrambling around TripAdvisor Top Ten attractions) and focus on the ending. Don't worry, no spoilers here...except that THEY BALLSED IT UP! YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!! The major, most critical issue facing the human race, which will, without question, lead to the sort of hell that Dante envisioned, is TOTALLY GLOSSED OVER! Our population could reach 15 Billion as soon as 2100. This number is impossible for the earth to sustain. You think the housing crisis of 2009 (which nobody though would happen) was bad? Oh buddy. Think Soylent Green, friends. This film COULD have made a statement, maybe generating some intelligent discourse on a problem which affects every human on earth, black, white, Muslim, Christian, Country Fans, Metal Heads. But SCREW that! We might upset people! Best to give them a sappy, sickening Twinkie ending to gobble up. Skip this movie. Read the book.

Soooo. As many others said the ending... SPOILERS: Half through the movie i said to my girlfriend that this probably is the best out of the three movies. I really liked it for a long time. Now i hope word to mouth will result in bad viewer numbers. The best part in the book was the controversial ending. It was thought provoking and refreshingly not the typical happy end. For the whole time of the book zobrist is the bad guy and then in the end you are not so sure because he didn't kill but found an extreme solution. It was a beautiful ending. And they just threw it out the window and changed it to a boring, stereotypical Hollywood endig. WTF??? I was never so disappointed in a movie theater before. They took an easy, safe and horrible path just so people aren't offended... Don't watch it! Don't pay for it! Don' support decisions like this! Pay them a lesson in reviews and with not paying money for this. I feel betrayed and i will write a letter to sony and co.

This was just one movie that didn't need to be made, but it was and unfortunately it was made poorly. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard were there again, the locations were beautiful, it was a great cast, and the story had potential to be done right, but it just turned out very wrong. Let's start with the first fifteen minutes where we have to put up with Tom Hanks' amnesia. Dizzying and distorted views and Hanks' big dumb facial expressions. How annoying. They could have trimmed five or ten minutes of this and we still would have gotten the idea. Speaking of the amnesia, it was more of a convenient amnesia where the Hanks character could for instance remember his gmail address and password but couldn't remember what coffee was called. It was just nonsense throughout how he would remember something and not remember something. Another annoyance were the endless chase scenes. Luckily I could fast forward through them though. And another annoyance, the scene where Sidse Babett Knudsen and Tom Hanks save the day. They go in with a group of people to find the deadly disease. They put it in the containment box and then everybody disappears except for the Knudsen character. She's all of a sudden alone with the box and of course gets attacked by a stabbed guy from a previous fight who swims underwater to find Knudsen. Then, Tom Hanks sees the struggle and jumps in. All of this time nobody else is there from the dozens of people that came in from the World Health Organization. Where did they all go? So dumb. Lastly, the billionaire who came up with this plan to wipe out half the world's population is apparently capable enough to come up with such a virus but incapable of coming up with a backup plan. So, there's only one bag of this virus instead of dozens or hundreds. His backup plan in case he was killed was to create a cryptic path for his girlfriend to murder her way through just to find and blow up this one bag. So stupid. Just one sloppy thing after another. It appears Ron Howard has lost his touch because this could have been done so much better.