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

Tom Hanks is the only actor to appear in the first three films of the series. Alfred Molina appeared twice, playing Bishop Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code (2006) and voicing the narrator in Angels & Demons (2009).

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Goofs

Zobrist says the bacteria doubles every minute, and the cup will be full at midnight. So it is half-full at 11:59, and the world is on the brink of destruction. His solution is a virus that would cull half the world's population. The problem is that this "solution" only turns back the clock 1 minute - not much of a savings. Sienna near the end of the film fails to recognize this herself, stating that the virus will permanently solve mankind's population problem.

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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

Featured in Inferno: The Overpopulation Debate (2017)

User Reviews

Messy, weak and lacking the serious impact of a serious crisis.

So, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks and Hans Zimmer return for the third movie adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling symbolist and iconology professional, Robert Langdon. Though we seem to be ironically missing, The Lost Symbol where Langdon tramples over Washington's Masonic history, which is currently in development but with Howard only sitting in a producers chair.

Howard's direction, or the editing seems sloppy and rushed with noticeable out-of-sync audio. It shows that they struggled with cramming as much as the butchered novel into the 121min runtime, missing possible reshoots as some of the performances are really not up to scratch, namely Sidse Babett Knudsen and Omar Sy.

Hanks, slips into Langdon mode totally as expected and the delightful Felicity Jones plays the Bond-girl style sidekick very well as we watch them try to figure out the same puzzles and twists Langdon is usually pitted against. It's unfortunate that the more I think about it, the more silly the elaborate idea becomes.

There's inconsistencies and obvious inaccuracies with the book and I wonder how much power Dan Brown had as executive producer. The story here appears much weaker than the novel, as does some of its characters, especially the reworking of Irrfan Khan's "Provost". A lot of the reasonings are just weak and unrealistic which is a shame for something which could actually happen.

Zimmer's score is of the recognisable Langdon theme but, it's been digitised adding a terrible technical feel that might accompany a espionage thriller. Again, giving me the assumption that the film was rushed and not the polished film it should have been.

What's possibly the biggest disappointment of the film is the factual reality that the story is based on, and as much as we all might like the previous, popular Brown conspiracies, this story is a real looming crisis. It lacks the serious impact the book gives of the current population crisis, the fact that we're nearly 9 billion people on a planet that can currently only support an estimated 4.

It fails to question what we should or what would we do in this situation, which we are actually in and is a serious topic for world governments, councils and organisations like WHO. Should we actively do something about population control or let nature take it's natural course. I don't honestly believe this film has audiences going home and taking a long hard think about the issue or the implications of viruses and other methods of population control. The real question being, do we let people die or save as many as we can to keep mankind from extinction.

True to most trilogy tragedies, this is certainly the worse of the series so far and I'm hoping The Lost Symbol doesn't fall to the same fate with a rumoured Mark Romanek at the helm. I had low expectations to begin with and unfortunately it didn't hit the mark.

Running Time: 6 The Cast: 6 Performance: 6 Direction: 4 Story: 5 Script: 5 Creativity: 7 Soundtrack: 4 Job Description: 3 The Extra Bonus Points: 0 Would I buy the Bluray?: actually yes, only to be part of the series.

46% 5/10

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