Inferno Burns Up

Inferno was an interesting movie. It’s quite obvious that it appeals to the older and more intellectual audience. Right off the bat, the movie throws you into a scenario where the main character Robert Langdon and Dr. Sienna Brooks who helps Professor Robert throughout the movie are being shot at by a police officer in a hospital. The movie is very confusing at the start, it doesn’t explain to you who the characters are, it just shows them.

Inferno is a mystery thriller that was directed by Ron Howard and starred Tom Hanks as the main character. Right at the begin of the movie you see two completely different scenes which are only explained towards the end of the movie, the movie is complex, almost like a puzzle in a way. In the movie, Professor Robert and Sienna Brooks are trying to stop a virus Bertrand Zobrist had created to kill half the population on earth to stop the “overpopulation problem” earth is having. So they go on a quest of solving puzzles to find and stop the virus before it spreads. You’re always trying to figure out what is going on because the movie takes little to no time to explain anything to the audience. In a way it could be fun to watch because you just can’t predict anything, it doesn’t have any cliché parts that other movies have. So it has this unique feel to it. Inferno uses the book “Dante’s Inferno,” a book about a man who travels through the nine rings of hell to reach heaven. It uses it as a massive puzzle that has Professor Robert and Dr. Sienna Brooks travel all around Italy and parts of Istanbul.

Inferno was filmed very well, the movie went along so smoothly, none of that “choppiness” feeling in the movie. A scene took place at Basilica Cistern where they are trying to find the deadly virus, the whole time they were in the Basilica Cistern the camera angles and movement was smooth, the scenes of Professor Robert running on the platforms above the water were done well and had an amazing point of view of specific parts of the building.

The acting was spot on, done very well, almost perfect to be perfectly honest. It had that “professionally done” feeling instead which made it a blast to watch. In the scene where Professor Robert is betrayed, it looked extremely genuine like he was shocked and didn’t know what was going on. He had this look of terror but also confusion. Sadly the plot had ruined it all the hard work that was done.

As you watch the movie you run across a scene which had a lot of detail, an abandoned shipyard house, the floor was covered in sand in the background you could see broken glass bottles, a small mirror, and more! It’s small things like that that help a movie be just a bit more interesting. To be fair almost every scene and area they were at had a tremendous amount of detail, from books laying on the floor to classical paintings on walls and even spider webs in the corners of a room!

Inferno was named after the book “Dante’s Inferno.” Yet it hardly uses it, in a couple scenes it uses it as a puzzle but that’s about it. The rest of the movie revolves around different puzzles that Bertrand Zobrist had set up to stop the virus he had created. The puzzles are interesting and they were done well. All Kinds of cool mysteries and problems Professor Robert and Sierra Brooks face make the movie quite interesting. What adds on is the suspense the movie builds up because they only have so much time before the virus is released throughout the world.

Most Critics did not like Inferno because it was too confusing and “Shallow.” It was also called stupid by critics. Sadly I have to agree with the first part. Just too much going on, didn’t make watch the movie a pleasant experience at first.

Inferno was a confusing but good movie. Lots of action and a unique plot. The movie started off rushing itself to much. I give it a ⅗. Younger people will not understand some things in the movie because of how complex it can be. If you want a mystery or something to get your brain going, this could be the movie for you.