one-nine-eighty Part 3 in the Dan Brown/ Robert Langdon 'books to films' see's Hanks return in another Ron Howard directed film, this time it's "Inferno" that gets the treatment. The female co-pilot in this film, as each story has had one, is Felicity Jones as Sienna Brooks. Waking up in a 'hospital' with 'amnesia' Langdon has to solve the mystery of his lost memory while working on the mystery of solving a modified version of Dante's "Inferno", which will help them uncover a global terrorist plot created by billionaire Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster). Having no memory makes it difficult for Langdon to know what lead him here, what's happened and what coffee is called. Twists and turns, high adrenaline, book-smart sleuthing, with a little more paranoia than before. This film really had a lot of potential, more so than the other films - it's darker, has potentially bigger fatality risks for humanity and it has a lot of unexpected twists. Unfortunately I found this to be the weaker of the three films pumped out so far. Dialogue and reasoning was occasionally stupid. Intentions and motives were sign posted. The bad guy is really the good guy and the good guy is really the bad guy - a staple for these Dan Brown films. It's all been done and is a bit tired. The main change was that the riddles and clues weren't marked out as obviously for the audience, in fact they were glossed over pretty quickly as if they didn't really matter - if you've watched the film, think back - what was Dante's map of hell there to point out - most people probably won't remember without it taxing their thoughts for some time. This was a theme - rather than look at the puzzles it was more a case of being a chase film. What happened to the end of the film too? Avid book readers will know that this is not how the book ended - it looks like director and producers wanted their own version of the end to make the film fall in line with Hollywood - nothing gets answered or resolved - the issue of overpopulation, which is a central theme to the movie, is still there at the end. It hasn't been looked at, hasn't been solved - it's all as it was when the film started. A little let down, 5 out of 10. Not awful, but definitely not great either. I don't think there will be many more of these now - this trilogy seems to have gotten worse in all aspects, from directions to cast delivery, from scenery on view, to performances, from story telling to plot twists.

sergelamarche If there were no plot twists, this film would be standard Bourne. Vilains not good enough to be in Bond films in spite of their billions, menace the future of the human race to save it. Nazi thinking... Crazy plot but good acting and predictable ending.

davechef We all know Hanks & how he loves to 'edge' it, but i was really hoping for a win-win where humans (in the millions) die to preserve the race ! which must happen anyway !. all in all a great piece of chewing gum. Why was the cop a good looking girl ? titillation,why was the 'baddie' black ? perception.

Mark Thomas Inferno review Where to start? At the end? Where is the end? At the beginning. After watching the 2 previous films I had very high hopes for the 3rd installment, but........ Again I won't spoil it for those who have not seen the film, but our hero (and in this he is, especially the end sequence) manages to recall the most minute details even though he is experiencing memory loss. The companion from the start was just too perfect and I knew instantly (oops I nearly gave the game away). All in all watchable but nowhere as good as the previous 2, in fact I will say I was let down. By far the worst part of the film were the scenes featuring the Asian Private Security guy. Review 4 out of 10