15 Movies That Thought They Were Smart But Totally Weren't

5. The Robert Langdon Trilogy

These three adaptations of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books are truly insufferable in every sense of the word.

Aside from the terrible screenplays, lack of genuine thrills and the brilliant Tom Hanks giving possibly the most disinterested performance of his otherwise amazing career, one of the worst things about this trilogy is that it treats these beyond-preposterous plots as if they're smart.

In The Da Vinci Code, a ridiculous conspiracy involving the descendants of Jesus Christ is presented and this nonsense is played completely straight, as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

In Angels and Demons, to stop an antimatter bomb destroying the Vatican, Ewan McGregor flies it up in a helicopter and then parachutes down from it again, hitting several buildings on the way... and survives. That's shortly before it's revealed he's actually the bad guy (viewers will guess that about twenty minutes in) and has carried out maybe the stupidest evil plan ever committed to film. Somehow the plan almost works too.

In Inferno, Felicity Jones' character (the apparent secondary protagonist) is revealed to be a villain out of nowhere. Her deceased billionaire boyfriend (Ben Foster) has left her the task of releasing a virus (his solution to overpopulation) and what did he do? He left behind an ultra-complicated treasure hunt for her instead of giving her simple instructions.

If another one of these ever comes out, we riot.