Comment on “Inferno”: Adaptation of Dan Brown thriller fails to raise a temperature

“Inferno”: Adaptation of Dan Brown thriller fails to raise a temperature

One and one-half stars. Rated PG-13.  121 minutes. By Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post After “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons,” who would expect “Inferno” —  the latest movie to be adapted from novelist Dan Brown’s series of thrillers about globetrotting Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon —  to be anything other than schematic, silly and slightly chaotic? In those movies, we watched as Langdon (Tom Hanks) ran from one scenic international site to another, trying to solve puzzles that had been left for him at art-historical landmarks, turning the experience of moviegoing into a vicarious, somewhat brainier version of an urban scavenger hunt. Related ArticlesOctober 23, 2016 Book review: “My Bad,” set in North Denver, is Manuel Ramos’ finest novel October 14, 2016 In ‘The Accountant,’ Ben Affleck is an enigmatic — and dangerous — savant October 23, 2016 Book review: Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel The new movie, which is based on the fourth and most recent of Brown’s Langdon books, takes us from Florence to Venice to Istanbul, as our hero follows a trail of intellectual bread crumbs that has him hopping walls at the Boboli Gardens, inspecting the bronze horses on the facade of St.

 

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