7 Recent Movies With Gaping Plotholes You Never Noticed
6. Inferno: Foster Could Have Released The Virus Himself
Plant-sized plotholes are just one of the issues that sent Tom Hank's latest outing as Dan Brown's puzzle enthusiast Robert Langdon Inferno crashing down in flames.
The movie's story is basically one massive, convoluted plothole. After another awkward slog through museums, it's revealed that Felicity Jones's character is the villain and her evil goal is to unleash a deadly virus created by her dead billionaire boyfriend, who has left behind a series of instructions on how to trigger it.
Rather than leave the clues at a secret location or locked up in a safe only she can access, the late Foster has his lover pillaging museums and teaming up with Langdon, the only man who can stop her. So much for keeping things low key.
But the biggest plothole of all opens up towards the end of Inferno when it transpires that the doomsday virus is housed in a clear plastic bag, attached to an underwater pillar. Foster could have released it himself by simply slitting the bag.
If he'd done that, there would have basically been no movie, which probably would have been for the best.