Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
The third Langdon adaptation follows a very familiar formula: amnesia-driven mystery, globe-trotting clue-chasing, and a ticking-clock bioterror conspiracy. The plot is convoluted without being genuinely clever, and the twist ending feels more contrived than satisfying. Tom Hanks delivers a competent but uninspired performance in a role that gives him little to work with, and the supporting cast is similarly underutilized. Ron Howard's direction produces polished European location photography — Florence, Venice, and Istanbul look great — but there's nothing cinematically distinctive about the visual approach. Novelty is low given this is a by-the-numbers sequel recycling the same symbology-chase structure. The ending attempts a subversive twist but lands as muddled rather than bold. Overall a middling entry that underdelivers on both its intellectual and thriller ambitions.