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:

His greatest challenge. Humanity's last hope.

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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

In the beginning sequence in the movie as Langdon is having dreams of the inferno, there is a character that walks by him in his dream/night terror that is wearing a "Plague Mask" that physicians wore during the "Black Death" and other plagues over the last 600- 700 years ago up until the 20th century as well. They are a strange contraption that has a bird like face covering the mask. The doctor would place herbs in the beaker of the mask in an attempt to ward off the miasma, or bad air, which spread the plague.

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Goofs

Brooks states that Langdon was 'intubated' so all the medication he received at the hospital was administered intravenously. Intubation is the insertion of a breathing/medication tube through a persons trachea, and has nothing to do with an IV.

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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

Followed by The Lost Symbol

User Reviews

Disappointing and Predictable Story

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"

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