Tom Hanks kicked off the 2016 fall movie season the weekend after Labor Day…
Many in the Industry would have considered that date to have been suicide at the box office, but not for Hanks who overcame the naysayers by turning SULLY into a major hit.
Now seven weeks later he’s at it again with a second attempt at box office gold.
Will Hanks pull it off with INFERNO?
Let’s just say that I enjoyed SULLY v e r y much……
This weekend Tom Hanks reunites for the third time with director Ron Howard and producer Brian Frazier for yet another complex adaptation of a Dan Brown best selling mystery thrill novel.
As Harvard professor and symbolist Robert Langdon we find Hanks waking up in an Italian hospital with severe head trauma. How did he get there? And what of all the haunting and twisted visions he’s experiencing?
And what of (hot) doctor Felicity Jones who’s treating him? IS there a connection?
And IF there is—Why and HOW?
Quite a puzzle!
Making things even worse there’s someone trying to do him in WHILE he’s in the hospital.
Time to get the hell out of there.
What we later learn is that it all revolves around a mad man intent on unleashing a killer virus with the potential of wiping out half the world’s population.
Can Hanks and his guardian hottie stop the unthinkable events before they become reality?
The clock is ticking in this race against time!
My take?
I was thoroughly confused for the film’s first hour and a half.
But then the clues began to fall into place.
Trouble is, by then I really didn’t much care anymore.
In all fairness though the production values and Hans Zimmer’s haunting score are first class in this two hour thrill ride.
So how would I rank the screen adaptations of Dan Brown’s THE Da VINCI CODE and ANGELS AND DEMONS with INFERNO?
Actually in that vary same order with Da VINCI CODE being my favorite.
The bottom line: if you’re watching this movie and getting frustrated, give it a while.
Things WILL come together eventually.
The movie also makes for a great travelogue with its grand scenery of Florence and Venice, Italy among several other settings to stimulate your senses.
INFERNO opens citywide. My grade: B-
I see dead people.