Inferno (2016)

When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.

Director:

Ron Howard

Writers:

Dan Brown (based in part on the novel by), David Koepp (screenplay by)

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan

4 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Hanks	...	Robert Langdon
Felicity Jones	...	Sienna Brooks
Omar Sy	...	Christoph Bouchard
Irrfan Khan	...	Harry Sims
Sidse Babett Knudsen	...	Elizabeth Sinskey
Ben Foster	...	Bertrand Zobrist
Ana Ularu	...	Vayentha
Ida Darvish	...	Marta Alvarez
Paolo Antonio Simioni	...	Dr. Marconi
Alessandro Grimaldi	...	Florence Hospital Taxi Driver
Fausto Maria Sciarappa	...	Parker
Robin Mugnaini	...	Apartment Carabinieri Captain
Paul Ritter	...	CRC Tech Arbogast
Vincenzo Tanassi	...	Boboli Gardens Policeman
Alessandro Fabrizi	...	Gallery Guard

Storyline

Famous symbologist on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.

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Plot Keywords:

amnesia | church | museum | police | virus | 

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Taglines:

The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons were just the beginning

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence, disturbing images, some language, thematic elements and brief sensuality

Did You Know?

Trivia

Much of the film (and the book from which it is based on) draws major parallels from Dante's "Inferno," hence the title of the piece and the Italian setting.

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Goofs

Langdon and Sienna take a car from Sienna's apartment to get to Palazzo Vecchio, "near the Giardini Boboli". However the location of Sienna's apartment overlooks Via del Sole, near Palazzo Strozzi, and is just a 7 minute walk from the Palazzo Vecchio, even closer than the Giardini Boboli! It would take just as long if not longer to take a car in the tight streets of Florence's historic center, which is not conducive to driving automobiles. In addition, after leaving her apartment the next scenes show them driving down Via Machiavelli in a completely different part of the city, across the Arno river.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Bertrand Zobrist: [on TV] It took the Earth's population 100,000 years to reach a billion people. And then just 100 more to reach two billion.

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Connections

Referenced in Lorraine: Episode dated 26 October 2016 (2016)

User Reviews

Review from a non-book reader

This review is from the perspective of someone who hasn't read the book but still knows his/her movies.

The movie's start is very confusing at first, where Robert Langdon has some visions but they don't really seem necessary and so it takes quite some time to establish the plot. It lacks the inclusion of Renaissance artists' work or a history lesson here or there, they are there, with the main focus on Dante, however it's still not as much as compared to the previous 2 movies, which just made them so much more interesting.

There a couple of plot twists in the movie but nothing that might throw you off your seat or make the movie more interesting.

Hans Zimmer's background score felt under par compared to the beautiful scores and themes he has given for The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and countless other movies.

Another thing that I felt lacking was a final turn in the end, like a final nail in the coffin, like the previous 2 movies had.

Overall, I don't know about Dan Brown's novel, but the writing of the script was not up to the mark.

Details

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Country:

USA Hungary

Language:

English French Italian Turkish

Release Date:

28 October 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Inferno

Filming Locations:

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Box Office

Budget:

$75,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,860,425, 30 October 2016

Gross USA:

$34,343,574

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$220,021,259

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Double Negative (DNEG), Imagine Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

121 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos Auro 11.1 12-Track Digital Sound IMAX 6-Track

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1