Inferno (I)

Oh, those sweeping shots of Florence and Istanbul. Ah, the Renaissance palazzos. And the inevitable anagram hidden in a classic painting, and the frantic quest that elevates perusals of museum stacks into thrilling set pieces.

3011d ago

When screenwriter David Koepp isn’t chained to the silly, Dante-related discoveries forcing the film forward, there’s fun to be had.

3011d ago

Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

When screenwriter David Koepp isn’t chained to the silly, Dante-related discoveries forcing the film forward, there’s fun to be had.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks reteams with his 'Da Vinci Code' director Ron Howard for another round of European adventures in this action thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks reteams with his 'Da Vinci Code' director Ron Howard for another round of European adventures in this action thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

3011d ago

Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks reteams with his 'Da Vinci Code' director Ron Howard for another round of European adventures in this action thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

3011d ago

Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks reteams with his 'Da Vinci Code' director Ron Howard for another round of European adventures in this action thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

3011d ago

Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

When screenwriter David Koepp isn’t chained to the silly, Dante-related discoveries forcing the film forward, there’s fun to be had.

3011d ago

When screenwriter David Koepp isn’t chained to the silly, Dante-related discoveries forcing the film forward, there’s fun to be had.

3011d ago

If nothing else, Ron Howard seems determined to make at least one good film based on Dan Brown’s bestselling Robert Langdon book series.

3011d ago

If nothing else, Ron Howard seems determined to make at least one good film based on Dan Brown’s bestselling Robert Langdon book series.

3011d ago

If nothing else, Ron Howard seems determined to make at least one good film based on Dan Brown’s bestselling Robert Langdon book series.

3011d ago

If nothing else, Ron Howard seems determined to make at least one good film based on Dan Brown’s bestselling Robert Langdon book series.

3011d ago

Returning director Ron Howard somewhat belabors the Botticelli-inspired hallucinations Langdon suffers from following a konk on the head – though you really can’t oversell the creepiness of a beaky plague mask – but he continues to have an inspired hand in casting his supporting players.

3011d ago

Returning director Ron Howard somewhat belabors the Botticelli-inspired hallucinations Langdon suffers from following a konk on the head – though you really can’t oversell the creepiness of a beaky plague mask – but he continues to have an inspired hand in casting his supporting players.

3011d ago

Returning director Ron Howard somewhat belabors the Botticelli-inspired hallucinations Langdon suffers from following a konk on the head – though you really can’t oversell the creepiness of a beaky plague mask – but he continues to have an inspired hand in casting his supporting players.

3011d ago

Returning director Ron Howard somewhat belabors the Botticelli-inspired hallucinations Langdon suffers from following a konk on the head – though you really can’t oversell the creepiness of a beaky plague mask – but he continues to have an inspired hand in casting his supporting players.

3011d ago

Part of the draw of these movies is that they don’t create beauty, but instead borrow the emotions of the beauty they depict. (This, more or less, is one definition of kitsch, courtesy of the philosopher Tomas Kulka.) That makes the movies easy to watch and easy to forget.

3011d ago

The 2009 follow-up, “Angels & Demons,” made people angry simply because it wasn’t as good as “The Da Vinci Code”—even though it managed to be more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor.

3011d ago

“Wrong basilica?” asks Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) in Venice, well into the second hour of “Inferno.” “Wrong country,” replies Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon, and you wish someone would walk up with a giant mackerel, Monty Python-style, and slap everyone in the face with it.

3011d ago

The chase, chase, chase pace is tiring, not least because it’s not clear who many of these people are and what agendas they’re following. Mixed-up confusion is the result.

3011d ago

“Wrong basilica?” asks Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) in Venice, well into the second hour of “Inferno.” “Wrong country,” replies Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon, and you wish someone would walk up with a giant mackerel, Monty Python-style, and slap everyone in the face with it.

3011d ago

The chase, chase, chase pace is tiring, not least because it’s not clear who many of these people are and what agendas they’re following. Mixed-up confusion is the result.

3011d ago

The 2009 follow-up, “Angels & Demons,” made people angry simply because it wasn’t as good as “The Da Vinci Code”—even though it managed to be more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor.

3011d ago

The chase, chase, chase pace is tiring, not least because it’s not clear who many of these people are and what agendas they’re following. Mixed-up confusion is the result.

3011d ago

The 2009 follow-up, “Angels & Demons,” made people angry simply because it wasn’t as good as “The Da Vinci Code”—even though it managed to be more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor.

3011d ago

Even with a wealth of talent involved, Inferno is missing some serious heat.

3011d ago

Even with a wealth of talent involved, Inferno is missing some serious heat.

3011d ago

Part of the draw of these movies is that they don’t create beauty, but instead borrow the emotions of the beauty they depict. (This, more or less, is one definition of kitsch, courtesy of the philosopher Tomas Kulka.) That makes the movies easy to watch and easy to forget.

3011d ago

“Wrong basilica?” asks Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) in Venice, well into the second hour of “Inferno.” “Wrong country,” replies Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon, and you wish someone would walk up with a giant mackerel, Monty Python-style, and slap everyone in the face with it.

3011d ago

Part of the draw of these movies is that they don’t create beauty, but instead borrow the emotions of the beauty they depict. (This, more or less, is one definition of kitsch, courtesy of the philosopher Tomas Kulka.) That makes the movies easy to watch and easy to forget.

3011d ago

Even with a wealth of talent involved, Inferno is missing some serious heat.

3011d ago

“Wrong basilica?” asks Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) in Venice, well into the second hour of “Inferno.” “Wrong country,” replies Tom Hanks’ Robert Langdon, and you wish someone would walk up with a giant mackerel, Monty Python-style, and slap everyone in the face with it.

3011d ago

The chase, chase, chase pace is tiring, not least because it’s not clear who many of these people are and what agendas they’re following. Mixed-up confusion is the result.

3011d ago

The 2009 follow-up, “Angels & Demons,” made people angry simply because it wasn’t as good as “The Da Vinci Code”—even though it managed to be more entertaining and less self-serious than its predecessor.

3011d ago

Even with a wealth of talent involved, Inferno is missing some serious heat.

3011d ago

Part of the draw of these movies is that they don’t create beauty, but instead borrow the emotions of the beauty they depict. (This, more or less, is one definition of kitsch, courtesy of the philosopher Tomas Kulka.) That makes the movies easy to watch and easy to forget.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in a Dan Brown thriller about population problems, Dante and the World Health Organization.

3011d ago

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) wakes up in a Florence hospital bed with short-term memory loss. When he’s attacked, Doctor Sienna Brooks (Jones) must help him escape and figure out what’s going on.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's third Dan Brown adaptation holds true to the letter and spirit of its source, though that's not necessarily a compliment.

3011d ago

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) wakes up in a Florence hospital bed with short-term memory loss. When he’s attacked, Doctor Sienna Brooks (Jones) must help him escape and figure out what’s going on.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's third Dan Brown adaptation holds true to the letter and spirit of its source, though that's not necessarily a compliment.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in a Dan Brown thriller about population problems, Dante and the World Health Organization.

3011d ago

Inferno feels every bit like the second sequel in an exhausted franchise, stunted by unfocused storytelling and a blandness that's almost sleep-inducing.

3011d ago

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) wakes up in a Florence hospital bed with short-term memory loss. When he’s attacked, Doctor Sienna Brooks (Jones) must help him escape and figure out what’s going on.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's third Dan Brown adaptation holds true to the letter and spirit of its source, though that's not necessarily a compliment.

3011d ago

Inferno feels every bit like the second sequel in an exhausted franchise, stunted by unfocused storytelling and a blandness that's almost sleep-inducing.

3011d ago

Inferno feels every bit like the second sequel in an exhausted franchise, stunted by unfocused storytelling and a blandness that's almost sleep-inducing.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in a Dan Brown thriller about population problems, Dante and the World Health Organization.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's third Dan Brown adaptation holds true to the letter and spirit of its source, though that's not necessarily a compliment.

3011d ago

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) wakes up in a Florence hospital bed with short-term memory loss. When he’s attacked, Doctor Sienna Brooks (Jones) must help him escape and figure out what’s going on.

3011d ago

Inferno feels every bit like the second sequel in an exhausted franchise, stunted by unfocused storytelling and a blandness that's almost sleep-inducing.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon in a Dan Brown thriller about population problems, Dante and the World Health Organization.

3011d ago

This is a franchise with lead weights tied around its ankles.

3011d ago

This is a franchise with lead weights tied around its ankles.

3011d ago

This is a franchise with lead weights tied around its ankles.

3011d ago

This is a franchise with lead weights tied around its ankles.

3011d ago

Say what you will about Dan Brown’s books. They may be, as some have noted, poorly written, formulaic and pretentious. But at least they hold a reader’s attention, in ways that this excursion — as sleep-inducing and rigidly predictable as a train ride — does not.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard conspire to bore us to death.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard conspire to bore us to death.

3011d ago

Third adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling religio-pulp series feels like a trip to hell and back – and not in a good way.

3011d ago

Say what you will about Dan Brown’s books. They may be, as some have noted, poorly written, formulaic and pretentious. But at least they hold a reader’s attention, in ways that this excursion — as sleep-inducing and rigidly predictable as a train ride — does not.

3011d ago

Say what you will about Dan Brown’s books. They may be, as some have noted, poorly written, formulaic and pretentious. But at least they hold a reader’s attention, in ways that this excursion — as sleep-inducing and rigidly predictable as a train ride — does not.

3011d ago

Third adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling religio-pulp series feels like a trip to hell and back – and not in a good way.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard conspire to bore us to death.

3011d ago

Say what you will about Dan Brown’s books. They may be, as some have noted, poorly written, formulaic and pretentious. But at least they hold a reader’s attention, in ways that this excursion — as sleep-inducing and rigidly predictable as a train ride — does not.

3011d ago

Third adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling religio-pulp series feels like a trip to hell and back – and not in a good way.

3011d ago

Third adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling religio-pulp series feels like a trip to hell and back – and not in a good way.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard conspire to bore us to death.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown's source material.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown's source material.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown's source material.

3011d ago

Ron Howard's adaptation retains the essential inanity of author Dan Brown's source material.

3011d ago

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks do perfect justice to Dan Brown's book - tragically.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks do perfect justice to Dan Brown's book - tragically.

3011d ago

Absurdity outweighs the thrills in Ron Howard‘s lifeless three-quel, a movie that’s not at all good — but never so bad as to be entertaining.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks do perfect justice to Dan Brown's book - tragically.

3011d ago

Absurdity outweighs the thrills in Ron Howard‘s lifeless three-quel, a movie that’s not at all good — but never so bad as to be entertaining.

3011d ago

Absurdity outweighs the thrills in Ron Howard‘s lifeless three-quel, a movie that’s not at all good — but never so bad as to be entertaining.

3011d ago

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks do perfect justice to Dan Brown's book - tragically.

3011d ago

Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones sprint fetchingly round Florence in a bid to stop half the world getting killed in this horrifically dull Dan Brown thriller.

3011d ago

Absurdity outweighs the thrills in Ron Howard‘s lifeless three-quel, a movie that’s not at all good — but never so bad as to be entertaining.

3011d ago

I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers.

3011d ago

I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers.

3011d ago

I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers.

3011d ago

I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers.

3011d ago