If there were no plot twists, this film would be standard Bourne. Vilains not good enough to be in Bond films in spite of their billions, menace the future of the human race to save it. Nazi thinking... Crazy plot but good acting and predictable ending.

Movie Review: "Inferno" (2016)As much as I wished for a December 2015 major event movie release starring Tom Hanks as reprising character of Robert Langdon for the third time, intently introduced by author Dan Brown in his spectacular novel "The Da Vinci Code", firstly published in April 2003, when Academy-Award-winning Hollywood director Ron Howard, at age 61, can not build juvenile accelerated thriller scene toward a 100-Minute-Cut necessary for a wide-audience release in favor for this Multi-Million-Dollar original source optioned material by Hollywood major studio Columbia Pictures, acting as Sony Picture affiliate, to rebound former successes with two already released Dan Brown novel adaptations "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) and "Angels & Demons" (2009) also directed by Ron Howard, which at least had the advantage to expose a major story-telling twists in the final thirty minutes into visual major league extravaganza at "Vatican City" as out-of-the-ordinary showdown location, when "Inferno" just fails to amaze and fades; too much of mimicked as staged-felt "Istanbul" water reservoir interiors final moments where Dan Brown's page-turner fourth novel of a "Robert Langdon" adventure, released in May 2013, just put an random Sunday afternoon read into satisfaction. This picture, as cut off his hundred-million-dollar production budget, has emotionally-undermined supporting characters, especially with almost no dramatic peak existing essential nemesis character of Bertrand Zobrist, performed by behind-indentifiable nevertheless utmost capable actor Ben Foster, when actress Felicity Jones as Robert Langdon sidekick just keep face and French actor Omar Sy, already neglected in another major Hollywood production "Jurassic World" (2015) concerning screen-time as Irrfan Khan, recouping some thrilling moments of the fairly-written novel as character of Harry Sims, operating a major world-wide operating company as CEO to put then in the movie version "no-present" character of "Zobrist" under pressure for an awaited-viral video release as Tom Hanks' keeps professional face with a franchise near its conclusion, if there were not the hard-boiled presumingly "R-rated" fright-night, out-of-the-dark, close-to character-death experiences as major "Washington D.C." located, third novel-storyline of "The Lost Symbol" to bring some vibe back to a somehow declining-in-popularity leading character of recent Hollywood history. FAZIT: Picture rejected (underdeveloped)Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Mr Howard, it's time to dump the Dan Brown, pulp nonsense 'don't-give- em-too-much-time-to-think-about-it' type storytelling and concentrate on making sense. This (ecological?) story is about as shallow as it gets and the casting, while some sure look good, are unsuited for their allotted tasks. But, while this mess left many audience members anxious for it to finish - it surprisingly did make money! Seems some people still like frenetic comic-book foolishness, so, I guess Mr Howard and Brown will keep churning it out for them. For die-hard action fans only.

Since I'm a mortal and thus unable to spare infinite amounts of time, I haven't read the Dan Brown book this movie is based on. By way of educated guess I would say that this is a fairly faithful adaptation, since everything screams Dan Brown : an implausible premise, weird conspiracies involving fanatics and assassins, bizarre minions cropping up all over the place, lots and lots of explosions, lots and lots of pursuits, untimely excursions into Art History 101 or the touristic treasures of the Mediterranean Area. Another typical trait : a time bomb, neatly labeled for your convenience.And of course there is the usual incompetent twaddle about symbolololology : no franchise can do without.The plot holes are beyond counting. The main one is serious enough to capsize the ship all on its own. If you are a misanthropic lunatic obsessed with the population explosion and environmental degradation, and if you are able to get your hands on a deadly virus, why not use the virus immediately ? Or if you fear that you will be unable to perform the work yourself, why not leave clear instructions to your collaborators along the lines of "This is the exact hiding place of the object : go there and open the vial" ? Why would anyone want to pile riddle upon riddle, or organize a magical mystery tour along the most stunning works of art of Italy and Turkey ? Talking about riddles, it is a mystery to me why fine artists like Sy, Knudsen or Hanks give themselves the permission to participate in tripe like this. Yes, yes, there are mountains - Himalayas - of cash involved, but surely there must be other projects providing a nice fee ? Who knows, perhaps someone was kind enough to give them an injection, afterwards, which induced retrograde amnesia.Or there may be some kind of "Ipcress file" brainwashing going on : ask these people where they were during the shooting and they'll go "kkksst-krr-kssst-errgl".The problem is that "Inferno" isn't just an annoying and obnoxious movie, it crosses the line where it becomes actively dangerous.Dan Brown may be honestly convinced of the dangers of overpopulation but if so, he chooses a most perverse way of showing his concern. The movie tells the story of a misanthropic eccentric who wants to "cull" the human population. This is not miles removed from suggesting that everyone worried about overpopulation is, by definition, a misanthropic eccentric seething with blood lust - especially if one takes into account the current cultural climate, where fact, reason and civic discourse have been snowed under by propaganda, wishful thinking and conspiracy theories. The sad results are here : think, for instance, of the vast number of people who do not "believe" in climate change, as if this were a matter of belief and not of facts. Also deeply disquieting : the large number of people who are willing to gobble any exciting nonsense, as long as there are enough explosions and pursuits, but who can't be arsed to read a serious report on a serious environmental issue. Dan Brown, a purveyor of cheap conspiracy theories and brainless thinking if there ever was one, contributes merrily to the confusion. The same can be said of the various makers of this movie.