10 Movie Flops It's Okay To Hate

This third Dan Brown adaptation is the least engaging of the lot, with Tom Hanks once again on the run from cops and laconic assassins in a picturesque locale. The time he’s in Italy attempting to decipher clues tied to the work of Dante (the poet, not the Gremlins director) which will help him save the world from a plague. Or something.

This kind of nonsense had some novelty in The Da Vinci Code (and some zip in Angels & Demons), but the series hasn’t evolved. It’s the same mix of clunky plot twists, boring stereotypes and hacked-out dialogue as before, only without the unintentional laughs. Where’s Ewan McGregor’s sky diving pope when you need him?

Every cloud has a silver lining, though – after Inferno died at the US box office, where it took $33 million compared to The Da Vinci Code’s $217 million, the series was put on hold.