Inferno

INFERNO

Director : Ron Howard

Year : 2016

Genre : Thriller

Rating : *1/2

Director Ron Howard and Tom Hanks reunite for an impressive seventh time with 'Inferno', the third and easily the silliest of the Dan Brown book to film adaptations that began with 'The Da Vinci Code' over a decade ago. Hanks once again stars as super-symbologist Robert Langdon who after waking up from an amnesia- inducing coma, teams up with doctor and wannabe detective Sienna ('The Theory Of Everything's Felicity Jones) to decipher a set of cryptic anagrams, riddles and puzzles leading to a deadly manmade virus created to wipe out half of humanity. What follows is an increasingly ridiculous and hilariously incoherent plot as Langdon and Sienna traverse their way across sunny Italy discovering clues and endlessly discussing the sociological and theological implications of Dante. Ron Howard is a terrific director and Tom Hanks remains one of the greatest actors in cinema history but even they couldn't contend with such a stupid premise filled with sanity stretching coincidences, plotholes which could be deftly navigated by a Boeing 747 and a finale that not only proves to be a crushing letdown but probably the dumbest finale in cinema this year. To its minute credit, 'Inferno' isn't the worst entry in this devastatingly boring trilogy but does that make it good? Follow the clues....