Da vinci code tom hanks movie#
On the whole, though, “Inferno” is less interesting because it’s a little more believable, at least in that “highly improbable/entirely possible” James Bond movie sense. Which is something like the selling point of this thriller, an old fashioned “mystery” with mostly over-50 actors and their yarn stealing the box office thunder from caped crusaders and their ilk for one week in the fall.īrown is a forgettable writer and the films Howard has made from his books have lovely locations - Florence, Venice and Istanbul this time - and classic writers and painters (Dante’s “Inferno” and his death mask, Boticelli’s paintings - that rescue them from the simple hokum that he’s inclined to serve up. He brings a wonderful world weariness to this “dark money” criminal mastermind.
The most interesting character and performance come from the great Indian actor Iffran Khan (“Life of Pi,” “Jurassic World,” “The Lunchbox”). Jones is plucky, a good character to have the plot points “explained to” by Langdon (who remembers little) and those who help him piece together the past few days so he can figure out what he’s looking for, and where in history he might find it. Hanks is as intrepid as ever as Langdon - no James Bond or “Terminator,” just a smart guy with a lot of experience in Florence’s museums, great houses and secret passages, just enough to keep him ahead of Sy (“The Intouchables”), who has only youth, strength, stamina and a World Government organization at his fingertips.įoster makes a believable cultist, a smart guy taken way too seriously by virtue of his sudden wealth. And Langdon’s best hope is the English doctor (Felicity Jones of “The Theory of Everything”) who helps him escape assassination, the World Health Organization agent (Omar Sy) on his trail, and perhaps the CIA and others who might want to know what he knows.Īnd most paranoid of all, Langdon has no clue about who to trust and doesn’t know the black guy chasing him is a U.N. A “provost” (Irrfan Khan) seems to be pulling the strings from his offshore (ship borne) supervillain’s lair. Because, you know, the billionaire built this bio-engineered cataclysm on a ticking clock and a puzzle which his True Believers and a classics scholar would be able to decode and either launch or prevent.Īn assassin (Ana Ularu) is after him. Hanks’ Langdon is found, in a Florence hospital, hallucinating nightmares ripped straight from the pages of Dante’s “Inferno,” a seven-hundred year old vision of Hell that Lagndon’s foggy short-term memory tells him is in danger of coming true on Earth.īecause there was this billionaire Zero Population Growth Messiah, a TED talk terrorist (Ben Foster) who just died and whose dying gift to the world was a global plague which only Langdon can prevent. Really, if you think the Mother Church is fretting over any secret that doesn’t involve child-raping priests and dictator-coddling popes, you’ve got a richer imagination than Brown. That said, Ron Howard, his star Tom Hanks and an A-list production team make this third “Da Vinci” film a solid page-turner, a travelogue that has a bit more logic about it and a more convincing villain than the truth-obscuring Catholic Church of the first two films. We can’t solve the puzzle before Langdon, because the pieces are changed to ensure that he’s the only one who could put all this together.
Add to that the cheats and red herrings the story tosses our way, and we’re totally at a disadvantage. Langdon’s wits and clue-connecting is unmatchable, even after he’s suffered a head wound and suffered days of memory loss, a plot device in “Inferno,” the latest Brown novel about Langdon’s exploits to make it to the Big Screen. Like any of us has Dante memorized, or a photographic memory of mural-sized masterworks about epic battles of the Middle Ages. Novelist Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” “puzzle-master,” classics professor and antiquities expert, has information in his memory banks that can uncover an alteration to any painting, a clue within any line of ancient poetry, with just a glance. The thing about Professor Robert Langdon is, he’s solving mysteries none of us has a prayer of solving before him.
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