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Cehennem

Inferno (Cehennem) (translated)

Movie · 2016 · 15 people

Ron Howard directed the American thriller Cehennem (Inferno) from a script by David Koepp, loosely adapted from Dan Brown's 2013 novel of the same name. It is the third and final Robert Langdon film, following The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, and came out ten years after the first. It premiered in Florence on 8 October 2016 and reached Turkish cinemas on 14 October 2016, where it drew about 602,000 viewers. Tom Hanks returns as Langdon.

Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with fuzzy memories and finds an assassin on his trail. With the help of Dr. Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), he follows clues rooted in Dante's Divine Comedy across Europe. The trail leads to a wealthy businessman planning to unleash a deadly plague on the world, and the adventure ends in Istanbul, around Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern. Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Irrfan Khan are in the cast, as is Mehmet Ergen among the Turkish players.

Shooting began in Venice on 27 April 2015 and wrapped in Budapest on 21 July 2015. Hans Zimmer composed the music and Salvatore Totino shot the film; Imagine Entertainment produced and Columbia Pictures distributed. Critics were mostly unimpressed, though it earned about $220 million worldwide on a $75 million budget.

DirectorRon Howard
Production companySony Pictures Entertainment

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Philip Arditti Philip Arditti Actor · born 1979 Tom Hanks Felicity Jones Sidse Babett Knudsen Irrfan Khan Omar Sy Ben Foster Ana Ularu Fortunato Cerlino Attila Árpa Francesca Inaudi Vincent Riotta Björn Freiberg Peter Linka Bálint Adorjáni

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a blurred memory and a hitman on his tail; the opening tension is pretty good. The chase from Florence to Istanbul, the clues and a deadly epidemic plan push the film forward. The pace is often high, though in some stretches exposition scenes cut the speed. The finale around Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern looks great. If you liked the series' other films, you will enjoy it. It was not as hard-hitting an action film as I expected, but it is watchable.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In the third Dan Brown adaptation Ron Howard runs the formula once more, and it is no surprise that critics generally disliked it. The clues leading to Dante's Divine Comedy are an interesting idea, but the film uses them less as a riddle that moves things forward than as an explanation machine that keeps giving directions. Hans Zimmer's score and Salvatore Totino's cinematography do their job, while the narrative repeats itself. Tom Hanks is solid; more could have been made of names like Ben Foster, Omar Sy and Irrfan Khan. A shiny budget, a weak thriller.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film uses Europe's cultural heritage as a thriller map: from Florence to Dante and on to Istanbul. For a Turkish viewer, what stands out is how visible Hagia Sophia and the Basilica Cistern are as a backdrop in world cinema, a reminder of the city's historic fabric in international popular culture. A rich businessman planning to spread a deadly epidemic is a catastrophe-fear narrative, which the film uses as a thriller device without deepening it. Earning about 220 million dollars against a 75 million dollar budget shows the brand is still attractive.

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