I gave it a 2 (spoilers)


Here is what they could have done to save the movie.
1. Don't call it Dante's Inferno. It wasn't Dante's, it was someone else's. If they had called it Silly McNutface's Inferno it would have scored a little higher.
2. Switching directors between segments can be a good thing, but switching animators too? It wouldn't have been so bad if the animation didn't suck.
3. Acting? More like script reading on the subway.
4. You call that fight choreography? I've seen better battles between toothpicks rolling through the air as my wife flicks them into the garbage can.
5. Oh hey, I've got a magical cross that absolves anyone of all sin and sends a damned soul straight to heaven. Really? I mean... wtf really?
6. The lead character (not necessarily the actor) seemed like he was reading for an all-male rendition of "Dazed and Confused" while popping steroids. "WHAT? GRRR!! ARRRGH!! I SHALL END YOU HERE DEMON RAAAWR!"

The one thing about the movie I did like was the hall of the philosophers where we find the greatest thinkers of all time sitting around and debating existential theories. Problem with this is that according to judeo-christian mythology - of which this story is supposedly based on - Jesus broke them out of hell and set them free long before our anti-Dante finds them.

The movie is full of contradictions like this.



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ok... i just watched this movie last night, and am watcing it again currently. what are you talking about "hall of philosophers"? I don't remember seeing that in this movie, nor can I find it currently.

I do, however, remember seeing that lump of trash "paper dolls" version of Dante's Inferno, that was rageingly awful. I think that i can recall a "hall of philosophers" in that movie.

I do conceed that neither movie is anything like the book.

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