There is a spirited opening with Hanks's character injured, delusional and amnesiac, which immediately thrusts the viewer into a shared personal mystery. What follows is a well made but very clinical cat-and-mouse thriller that again suffers as a result of the source material, with flimsy and mechanical plotting and a serious lack of puzzle-solving, on the latter of which Brown's output (both literary and cinematic) is sold. As a picturesque travelogue, the film looks great, the strong cast does solid work with what little emotional characterisation is on offer, and Hans Zimmer conjures up a great cool-synth thriller score that nevertheless is strangely intrusive in key dialogue scenes. Inferno is a handsome but over-long routine thriller that really would benefit from more action and content in order to truly engage.
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