I am a die-hard horror movie buff and there was imagery throughout 'Inferno' that made me cringe. The fact that this movie is PG-13 is incredible. Now we know what Howard's aborted 'Dark Tower' adaptation would have looked like.

When Langdon first wakes up he has some extremely detailed visions of what Dante's Inferno would look like on Earth, and the imagery is pretty disturbing. Director Ron Howard seems to be getting more experimental as he ages, bouncing between handheld and cranes and dancing between long shots and quick cuts like he's having the time of his life. 'Inferno' is the best of the Langdon movies, although that's damning with faint praise. He rarely throws punches or gets in shootouts, but instead follows clues and walks quickly through crowds and museums to escape danger. That's not to say that the character is all that interesting he's another smart white dude along the lines of Sherlock Holmes following the career path of Indiana Jones.

The main thing that makes the books such goofy fun to read and the movies enjoyable is the character of Langdon himself. He thinks the population has grown too large for the Earth to sustain it, so he looks at the purge as a way to save the world by killing a few billion people. Without delving too deeply into spoilers, the reasons have to do with a billionaire geneticist who engineered a plague to wipe out a huge chunk of the world's population. He teams up with his doctor, Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), to not only uncover the mystery of his missing time, but also to find out why assassins, the World Health Organization and a private security company called The Consortium are all hunting him down. This time, Langdon wakes up in Florence, Italy, with a head injury and no memory of the past 48 hours. The story is similar to 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels & Demons' in that we follow Harvard University professor Robert Langdon through another historical scavenger hunt across the globe. 'Inferno' is the latest Robert Langdon thriller based off the books by Dan Brown, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom 'America's Favorite Uncle' Hanks.

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