These Robert Langdon films (as well as the books they're based on) always seem to team the professor up with a younger (and always attractive) female partner, and this time around her name is Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), who is the doctor tending to him when Langdon awakens at the beginning of the film. Things have happened to him in the last couple of days that are vital to this story, but Langdon has no memory of them.allowing the audience to find out the answers at the same time the character does in the story.
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The other twist is that our hero, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks, returning to the role for a third time), begins the movie in the hospital in Florence, Italy, where he awakens to find himself with amnesia. This results in a rare instance of a movie where the lead character is trying to stop a bad guy's evil plot even though the villain is already dead. The movie actually opens with a number of interesting twists – starting with the fact that the primary villain in the movie, Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster), commits suicide rather than being captured in the story's opening moments. Not that 'Inferno's plot is completely original, as it focuses on a madman wanting to unleash a global plague that will kill off half the world's population. The movie is based on the fourth Robert Langdon book in Dan Brown's bestselling series, with everyone involved wisely choosing not to adapt the third novel, 'The Lost Symbol', primarily because (this is my guess) that the book's story is too closely similar to the Disney hit film, National Treasure 2.
While it nowhere near ranks as one of my favorites of the past year (and it was one of my most highly anticipated movies), story-wise it's on par with the previous two installments, with all the good and bad that entails. So to say 'Inferno' was a big disappointment for Sony is putting it mildly, but honestly you can't really blame the film itself. Despite making a nice amount overseas, the movie was nothing short of a dud here, pulling in only $34 million domestically (the prior Langdon movie made $133 million in 2009 dollars, which is about $153 million in 2016 dollars). That thud you heard last year was the sound of 'Inferno' arriving at the American box office.