Cast: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Sidse
Babett Knudsen, and Irrfan Khan
Director: Ron Howard
121 minutes (15) 2016
Widescreen ratio 1.85:1
Sony Blu-ray regions A B C
Rating: 7/10
Review by Christopher Geary
A sequel to The
Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels &
Demons (2009), this latest adventure properly begins with Prof. Langdon (Tom Hanks) waking
up injured in what appears to be a Florentine hospital, where he’s suffering from
apocalyptic visions while being stalked by a female assassin. Initially, our
genius hero’s amnesia (the word ‘coffee’ remains on the tip of his tongue, but
he instantly recognises a Botticelli painting) complicates puzzles he must
solve in the pursuit of a biotech weapon that threatens plague - a virus with
culling capacity. “Killing billions to save lives? That’s the logic of tyrants.”
Colourful
and exotic locations abound, after a train to Venice ,
and a W.H.O. jet flying to Istanbul
Although
these movies are often silly and frequently preposterous, they are thrillers
not documentaries, and should not be expected to maintain strong narrative
logic when they are dealing with the layering of fantastic themes, and the engrossing
mysteries of belief systems. Nobody (and movie critics are especially included!),
ever demanded that every Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and Indiana Jones picture
made perfect sense, and those iconic heroes are, quite obviously, the main inspirations
for the character of Langdon, so why dump vitriol upon this trilogy of screen adaptations
of Dan Brown’s novels?
The bonus
disc includes two featurettes (21 minutes each), one about the overpopulation
debate, and one exploring the literary influence of Dante’s epic poem Divine Comedy and its relevance to
horror and the future of our species.
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