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Movie Review – Inferno

I’d be blunt. I don’t have many good things to say about Dan Brown as a storyteller. Undeniably, the man wields a certain profitably formula, but it is a formula built upon gross exaggerations, hysteria, and wild plot twists that pile on like clockwork. Worst of all, he regularly drenches his prose with chunks of touristy narrations, most of which feels to be lifted right off travel brochures. The best place to read his stories, in my opinion, is while you are trapped in a queue when traveling. Oooh! I’m standing on an Illuminati stronghold. Aahhh! And then you get onto the bus, and you promptly forget all about it.

For these reasons, I had no great expectations for Inferno. I am thus pleased to say that while it was hardly free of the absurdities I loathe in Brown’s stories, there was a genuine effort to keep Brown’s worst at a minimum, and I ended up quite enjoying the movie. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard both live up to their reputations as two of showbiz’s more reliable names, and for the first half of the movie at least, there was a gripping suspense reminiscent of spy thrillers from the 70s. Sadly though, this suspense fizzled towards the ending, and this is more the fault of the original plot than movie direction or acting. What also puzzled me was the decision to alter the ending so drastically. All else aside, I thought the ending was the only great thing about the original story. Did the producers feel otherwise? Or was the final message of Inferno simply too hellish to be reproduced on the big screen?

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