The arrival of Inferno, Howard's treatment of the fourth novel in Brown's series, feels marked by the underwhelming previous efforts and a decided sense of obligation toward maintaining an unwanted franchise.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2022

As a character, Langdon has even less dimensions than the more animated sleuths Carmen Sandiego and Dora the Explorer, and it's sad seeing Hanks wasting his talents in such a gossamery role.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Overstuffed with clues, just not thrills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2021

It's a shame that real adventure is substituted for puzzle-solving, and that those moments of puzzle-solving are deciphered by mere talk.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Despite the forward press of velocity, there's little legitimate energy or enthusiasm, and the product on screen proves empty, soulless, and wholly unsatisfying.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 2, 2020

Even by the relatively low bar of the previous two films, this one does fall short. I guess if you can say that the book was better, in this of all cases, than this really isn't a very good film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2020

Hanks is playing the outline of a man without any features, and you can get away with that for one or two films, but then people want a nose or a mouth.

| Apr 28, 2020

I thought it was OK. The plot may be almost laughably ridiculous... but, compared to the stuff I've been subjected to this year, it might as well be The Third Man.

| Jan 15, 2020

So you have travel, you have art history, you have a history lesson about the black plague and iconology, you have a cautionary lesson about the danger of ripping open plastic bags full of deadly viruses. What's not to like about Inferno?

| Oct 9, 2019

Hanks returns as Massive Headwound Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon, who this time around suffers from amnesia. After watching Inferno, we should all be so lucky.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 10, 2019

So often the film adaptation of a beloved novel leaves a lot to be desired, but Howard did a nice job of making sure the movie followed the book for the most part.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2019

It might not hurt to get some fresh blood behind the camera so Ron Howard can stop straining himself so damn hard.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

The biggest mystery in Tom Hanks' return to the role of intrepid symbologist Robert Langdon is why there are so few surprises.

| Jul 10, 2019

Inferno is violently stupid and relentlessly unentertaining. It's the sort of movie where characters vomit exposition and explanation like they chugged a plot laxative before every scene.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 25, 2019

It's entirely watchable, providing you don't make the mistake of actually thinking about it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2019

It's no mystery why Inferno works...viewers can sit back and enjoy the journey. It is not, however, as clever as it thinks it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2019

[Inferno] hits the ground limping, strewing the narrative with unnecessary confusion right out of the gate.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 14, 2019

Inferno may perhaps be the least convincing of the Brown trilogy to give the makers an excuse to explore Europe.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

Occasionally threatens to [become] the suburban multiplex answer to a lesser Dario Argento production.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Nov 4, 2018

Retaining the fast pace and the ticking-clock type of storytelling of Angels and Demons while rarely going in to dull territory of The Da Vinci Code, Inferno entertains once again with its ridiculous schlock.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2018