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Omar Sy | ... |
Christoph Bouchard
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Irrfan Khan | ... |
Harry Sims
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Sidse Babett Knudsen | ... |
Elizabeth Sinskey
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Ana Ularu | ... |
Vayentha
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Ida Darvish | ... |
Marta Alvarez
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Paolo Antonio Simioni | ... |
Dr. Marconi
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Alessandro Grimaldi | ... |
Florence Hospital Taxi Driver
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Fausto Maria Sciarappa | ... |
Parker
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Robin Mugnaini | ... |
Apartment Carabinieri Captain
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Paul Ritter | ... |
CRC Tech Arbogast
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Vincenzo Tanassi | ... |
Boboli Gardens Policeman
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Alessandro Fabrizi | ... |
Gallery Guard
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Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown's (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) 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 (Felicity Jones), 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. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
This review is from the perspective of someone who hasn't read the book but still knows his/her movies.
The movie's start is very confusing at first, where Robert Langdon has some visions but they don't really seem necessary and so it takes quite some time to establish the plot. It lacks the inclusion of Renaissance artists' work or a history lesson here or there, they are there, with the main focus on Dante, however it's still not as much as compared to the previous 2 movies, which just made them so much more interesting.
There a couple of plot twists in the movie but nothing that might throw you off your seat or make the movie more interesting.
Hans Zimmer's background score felt under par compared to the beautiful scores and themes he has given for The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and countless other movies.
Another thing that I felt lacking was a final turn in the end, like a final nail in the coffin, like the previous 2 movies had.
Overall, I don't know about Dan Brown's novel, but the writing of the script was not up to the mark.