I’m not saying Nicolas Cage could have rescued this film. Far from it.

I’m just saying he might have given us some moments to grin at.

This one is just a yawn.

Should you try it out? I infer: no.

Tom Hanks, Irrfan Khan-starrer is an adaptation of Dan Brown’s torturous novel. The only improvement it has on the book is that it ends in two hours.

It took substantial self-control to resist making fire jokes, but it’s now or never, so here goes. Inferno, despite the best efforts of an always-dependable Tom Hanks, burns up in a raging fireball. Sorry.

Inferno is a must for fans of Hanks. But watch it also for Irrfan. Steady as a rock, he doesn’t put a foot wrong despite being in a predictable film that doesn’t get everything right.

At the end of the day, everything in Inferno is just about passable. Watch the film if you really want to.

Frankly speaking, one would have to be an amnesiac to rate this film even as a thoughtful thriller!

Overall, when at the very end, you hear “If you loved humanity or this planet, you’d do anything to solve it”, you feel let down with all the hype of the Inferno.

Overall, when at the very end, you hear “If you loved humanity or this planet, you’d do anything to solve it”, you feel let down with all the hype of the Inferno.

The film is worth one watch in the cinema if you are a Brown or Hanks fan. But not if you are looking for something that better challenges your intellect.

For a thriller, it doesn’t really offer much of a thrill. It’s a perfunctory follow up to a formula that saw success 10 years ago but maybe it’s time to toss the baby out with the bath water.