A stylish but tedious thriller that never does catch fire.
– Brad Wheeler,
Globe and Mail,
28 Oct 2016
rotten:
You know you've made some poor cinematic choices when you have to make Dan Brown characters less complex.
– Bilge Ebiri,
Village Voice,
28 Oct 2016
rotten:
Ron Howard's mostly lame adaptation of Dan Brown's wholly lame novel.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
28 Oct 2016
rotten:
Unless you are a Dante scholar, and perhaps not even then, following Inferno is a wild goose chase - without the goose.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Oct 2016
rotten:
It's a lot more like a tweed-jacket version of Bond or Bourne or most any other thriller out there. But if Langdon is distinguished from the other globe-trotting saviors by his PhD, why aren't his movies smarter?