Movie Review: Inferno (2016)

Hello All,

    I’m really fucking exhausted. I know I’ve said this before, but at the time of writing this, I basically woke up at 5am, and have not stopped moving since. My brain is sputtering, and it’s taking me forever to write this I’m typing so slowly. So let’s do this quick shall we?

Plot Summary - After waking up in a hospital, and suffering from Amnesia, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) finds himself caught in a deadly plan to release a virus that would kill half the world’s population.

Pros - The cast is pretty solid in this. I really want to mention Felicity Jones as a particular favourite of this.

Cons - Which is amazing because good lord they give her barely anything to work with. I don’t know how much of the book they changed for the movie, but in an effort I guess to try and make it more appealing to a mainstream audience the story just gets riddled with plot holes, secondary characters that are basically useless, and so much padding in the form of exposition riddled flashbacks that explains twists you can see coming from miles away. Not to mention the movies biggest twist which is such a hand wave explanation that I physically leaned over to my friend I saw the movie with and called bullshit.

Final Score - 1/10

I hate this movie. It’s bland, meaningless mush, and it’s just so terribly written it’s basically pointless.

Next: I’m going on Vacation. From Nov 1st to November 10th I will be out of town visiting relatives. So no wide release movies until I get there, as I will (try to) post at least two reviews while I’m down there. There will be a Halloween Special Review, so keep an eye out for that.

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