Inferno [4K UHD]

Mostly, I think Dan Brown's Italian-mystery-novels are overwrought. But, I have had a fascination with Dante's Divine Comedy so I read the novel (yes, it was overwrought) and caught up with this movie which was entertaining, especially for the visuals and atmosphere. Hanks has the same facial grimace for much of the movie, but I did like that the (very limited) romantic interest concerned an older couple for a change.

Great Dan Brown movie

entertaining if you like hanks

Every once a while we should all be required to watch a good Tom Hanks movie. He really is a great actor and it is a pleasure to watch him perform his craft. I don't know-- life is pretty good

I really enjoy watching movies inspired on Dan brown books!! Would love to watch the Lost Symbol if they ever film a movie. Needs to be with Tom Hanks!!

A thrill to watch

I guess because it would be redundant to call it "The Dante Code", Dan Brown called it "Inferno". However, it essentially parallels much of what we saw in "The Da Vinci Code". Instead of Da Vince it's Dante and all the crazy cryptic clues refer to Dante's "Inferno", the first part of the epic poem "The Divine Comedy". Before we get to the meat of what Dante's "Inferno" has to do with a charismatic leader who has some pretty nutty ideas about how to improve humankind, women with big guns, well-dressed Africans, plague-inducing viruses, an underground "protection service" (we'll kill lots of people for you at reasonable rates kind of organization), and Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, let's explain Dante's "Inferno"."Inferno" ("Hell") is the first of three large sections or "books" of the most famous literary work of the Middle Ages, "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). ("Comedy" in this sense doesn't mean "humorous" but simply means it was written in a style accessible to the common man and has a positive ending, as opposed to "high tragedy" which was often in a more affluent style with a tragic ending.) Dante wakes up into a kind of "dream" in which he comes to the entrance of Hell. Dante, escorted by the ancient poet Virgil, goes on an horrific tour of Hell in which he witnesses the nine different rings or "levels" of Hell, and at each level, the sufferer-residents are being tormented in a way which is conducive to their sins when alive, such as carnal malefactors or those who had endless lust and are blown back and forth by an endless wind. Throughout the levels, Dante sees the sufferers and at each level the suffering becomes worse.Back to Langdon. We see a man offering a lecture to a mesmerized audience about over-population which will supposedly come to the Earth if something isn't done. The lecturer's solution: enact a drastic measure to wipe out half of the earth's human population. We then see visions of catastrophe where poor suffering souls similar to Dante's "Inferno" are dying or tormented in urban streets. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks reprising his role of the two previous Langdon movies) wakes up in a hospital room in Florence, but he doesn't know why he's there. He was on a recording as saying "I'm sorry" when he staggered into hospital several hours earlier. He appears to be suffering from a gun-shot wound to the head and he can't remember the last 48 hours. An attractive young doctor, Sienna (Felicity Jones) attends to him who speaks with a British-English accent and also fluent Italian. Just as they're trying to figure out how he got there, shots ring out and some baddies are chasing after Langdon, particularly a woman in leather dressed as an Italian police officer.So begins "Inferno" in which secret clues and other cryptic messages have been hidden along a kind of artistic "trail" which should lead to the final answer. And guess what? They all relate to Dante! The clues begin at the Palazzo Vecchio and continue to the Duomo and then to other parts of Europe and even beyond. Similar to "The Da Vinci Code", Langdon's companion is a young women trying to help him get through everything. Sort of an Italian equivalent of Sophie. There are also flashbacks to someone who died at the beginning. Like the Da Vinci Code, there's an important artifact and even an unexpected twist.It's certainly entertaining but it's probably the weakest of the Langdon films. "Angels and Demon" uses much less of the Langdon formula but "Inferno" uses much more. Although the idea of the plague and Dante are loosely connected, I wanted to hear more about the connection between Dante and the plot. The great plague of the late Middle Ages circa 1350 is certainly one of the most catastrophic moments in European history, although Dante really wasn't quite writing about the plague per se. "The Divine Comedy" was completed about 30 years before the plague and was mostly intriguing because it became the model by which Hell was portrayed in Europe and later America thereafter. Although in this story, the plot line was desperately trying to fuse the two together.

I am not huge into this type of movie but dang was I pleasantly surprised. This movie was awesome and is now in my I will watch again list.

Good performances from Hanks and Jones save this film from being worse. The initial premise is, of course, an elite agenda 21/30 to cull the population. A billionaire agrees with this and so creates a virus to wipe out at least half of the world's population or even up to 95%. This he believes is saving the world. Instead of just letting off the airborne virus, he chooses to hide it and creates a trail of clues so his girlfriend can find it in case something happens to him. However, he is tracked by various agencies at the start of the film and chooses to commit suicide rather than tell them where it is, when he could have just let it off as soon as it was created. This is the major flaw in the storyline rather like the 'Lord of the Rings' where Frodo and his pal spend weeks or months trekking to mordor when Gandalf can create magical beasts from moths and they could have flown there instead. Hanks and Jones team up to find the virus before it is too late and solve the puzzle path mainly set in Italy and the beautiful scenery, paintings, murals, sculptures and architecture of Florence and Venice.

I was pretty disappointed in this having read the book. True books are generally always better than the film but I usually do also really enjoy a film if I've enjoyed the book it's based on. The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons films I enjoyed very much despite them not quite living up to the books. But this one...in some ways it followed the general plot well but with a few things changed slightly as they always tend to be in films. Some parts seemed a bit to quickly glided over and happened so fast that you didn't get to experience the effect of them that seem such a big part of the story when you read the book. There didn't feel much mystery or excitement. Then I was even more disappointed towards the end when the whole idea behind the original plot of certain characters and the story in the book was changed. I don't see why that was necessary. This could have been a really good film. I'd say it's still worth a watch if you are a fan of the book and like seeing them put to screen. But I would prepare to be unimpressed... Of course, perhaps a lower expectation would improve it it for some.

As the above title would suggest, I like Dan Brown's Robert Langdon character. I have read all the books and enjoyed the hell (inferno) out of them, but books, and films of books, are always a challenge for any director to unravel in a pleasing cinematic fashion. Ron Howard does a sterling job - as he always does - in bringing Dan Brown's novel to life. And Tom Hanks is highly believable as Langdon. But the way in which the core story unfolds is very different from the novel and the ending is purely an invention of the screen writer. I wouldn't say it's disappointing but the film varies greatly from the book. The sets and locations are all wonderful to behold as Langdon travels around in search of clues and answers. To sum up, the book is not the film, the film is not the book, but as a piece of cinema I found it an enjoyable watch especially when the plot matched that which I recognised from the novel. Overall I am pleased to add this title to my collection.

BLURAY is excellent quality, great sound, picture, but poor Subtitles - in that the white often fails to be clear on a white background, but my wife said she just about managed. Want a headache? Watch the first 25 mins or so. Hysterical editing, shaky, contsantly moving camera.... I nearly gave up, but it did calm down a lot. Add to this a plot that is not only madly implausible, but also (for me) hard to understand. Then you have odd casting. Why did the producers go for an unknown/just starting cast, leaving Hanks to carry the film - which he does of course.? Felicity Jones looks lovely but, forgive me Flick, seems on auto pilot. Anyway, the film looks gorgeous. The settings and locations are magnificent and Venice is in all it's glory. Not a complete loss for a Saturday Nt., but I preferred "DA VINCI/ANGELS"

What's not to like with a Tom Hanks movie. Goodness me why did he accept a role with the makers of this film, if this is the style of Ron Howard's film making then 'buyers beware' . The plot and story is all over the place but the worst aspect is the actual Filming. A diatribe of close up one second flash shots on hand held cameras, a fest of nauseating sea sickness inducing amateur filming. So another dvd in the bin.