As the addled professor dashes around Europe trying to prevent a humanity-culling plague cooked up by a Dante-spouting madman, the film more or less goes through the popcorn motions, but with less technical finesse (and even less mischievous irony) than one might expect from the Howard imprint. And so it largely proves in the latest installment of perennially endangered symbologist Robert Langdon’s cryptic-lite adventures. But there’s a hint of threat in those words too: If you found the first two films soulless and joyless, they imply, prepare for things to have gotten a little bit worse this time. “‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels & Demons’ were just the beginning,” proclaim the posters - pretty inarguably, since “Inferno” is nothing if not a continuation of what they started. In the long and spotty history of movie taglines, there have been few quite as noncommittal as the one dreamed up for “ Inferno,” the third in director Ron Howard’s series of schlockbusters drawn from the nominal literary oeuvre of Dan Brown.
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