Director Ron Howard’s Inferno
is a wild ride for Dan Brown fans.
Writer David Koepp and
Editors Tom Elkins and Daniel P. Hanley have done an admirable job in making a
difficult story comprehensible.
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks)
wakes up in a Florentine hospital with temporary amnesia and soon finds himself
and the doctor, who was caring for him (Felicity Jones), on the run from an
assassin cop (Ana Ularu) and Italian police.
Langdon’s attempt to
understand what happened to him and find the hiding place of a plague virus
that could wipe out half of humankind take him and the doctor from Florence to
Venice and on to Istanbul with plenty of action and surprises along the way.
Hanks and Jones are
excellent, but the standout performances are from Irrfan Kahn as the head of a
clandestine protection group and Sidse Babett Knudsen as a World Health Organization
official with whom Langdon was once romantically linked.
Though sometimes a bit
difficult to follow, the surprises make up for it. I give Inferno a 3.9 out of 5.
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