Inferno (2016)

... by Dan Brown, or "Torture" (of the viewer) by Ron Howard, is the last piece of the trilogy that started quite ok with "DaVinci Code" and continued less ok by "Angels and Demons". Tom Hanks is back as Robert Langdon, probably the person in academia who had the most thrilling life since Indiana Jones ...

The guy wakes up somewhere in Florence in a hospital which is so obvious is not a hospital that giving a spoiler warning is totally useless. Partial amnesia and a medic from UK who we don't know how she got in a ER in Florence, but we know that she was a little prodigy. Obviously Mr. Langdon doesn't smell any issue in all this context, somehow similar with him forgetting the name of that dark drink that wakes you up in the morning (a subtle excuse for giving credibility to an intrigue that's hard to cope with). However, Mr. Langdon is able to build up the path towards a virus hidden by a demented billionaire who wants to erase half of the world population for providing Earth with a brighter future (it's me, or this subject gets scarily overused lately ...). Well, so we get to a ride that spans the entire film, with an ending that makes you ask why you needed all that. Or how a demented billionaire who apparently is genius enough to design such a biological weapon (and also to become a billionaire) can have such a lame failsafe for his evil plan ...

There's not much more to say. The best part of the movie I think was the presence of Irrfan Khan who stole every scene he was in. That and also getting to see a bit of Florence and Venice. Besides these too much eye-rolling and spontaneously asking yourself "seriously?...", way too much ...

Rating: 2+ out of 5