It comes as no surprise that a celebrated movie character from an acclaimed series of mystery novels to suffer so much each and every time we see him on the big screen. We thought he had it with car chases, psycho-killers and shooting all over iconic cities but no; it’s not enough for him that he needed memory loss, head lacerations and well, a plague.
The movie was chaotic, literally chaotic, and halfway through I realized that it was set up that way, as our hero was on chaos; he doesn’t know where he is, no idea on what happened, and he’s in bad shape. A group of individuals decided to create a virus that could eliminate half the population on earth in days, and Professor Robert Langdon is unaware of which side he is in the battle.
I’m not sure yet on whether the Langdon formula has worn out on me. Mystery plus hot girl partner plus half the world chasing after him; that was all we’ve seen from The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol which by the way I’m not sure why it was skipped. We have the same director, studio, producers, and musical scorer, but Inferno is less dramatic. Less emphasis on statues, less religion, less everything we’ve come to know from a movie with Robert Langdon in it, and sorry for not being helpful but I’m not sure as well if that’s a good thing or not. All I know is we missed Tom Hanks on a suspense, thriller film and I was just thankful about that.
The movie picks up quickly, it doesn’t pause. It gives the audience no time to comprehend on what’s happening, you’ve got to figure it out the same time the character does, and if you haven’t read the book, like me, surprises are on the way.
Hans Zimmer at first I thought under-performed again, but I realized that he is an exemplary musical genius and now I realized that his material can only be as great as the material it’s scoring. Safe to say that Inferno is not half as good as Angels and Demons, or half as moving as The Da Vinci Code. But Inferno has great shots, fluid pacing and great casting.
Line up Inferno to the the Robert Langdon film franchise, and though not as powerful as the previous two films, we want to see more of this.
Grade: 3 Stars
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