Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I didn't play the game... I'm scared of religious fanatics. But I am glad that this movie showed me the story. It's better than expected, it actually denounces the abuses done by the catholic church. So I liked the twists as it revealed Dante's memories every time he met someone he knew.Dante's girl gets kidnapped by Lucifer and he needs to go to the deepest layer of hell to fight him and get her back. But it's actually more original than it sounds...My first thought is that there was something weird with the animation style... and then it changes at every layers of hell, with completely different directors, teams, and Dante's clothes even look different.So I think that this movie was made as an art form, and that makes the fact that the animation wasn't perfect acceptable.It's not the best I've seen, I liked Bayonetta more but it's probably because I played that one. I don't feel the urge to play the Dante game, but I wouldn't mind watching the movie again eventually.

From a classic tale of the devil's playground comes this horrific film about Dante and his self seeking knowledge of sin. Taken during the holy crusades, Dante is in the middle east serving god to rid the world of heretics or heathen false god worshippers. In his heated battles, Dante learns about the truth of his own soul as he cuts down the unworthy without mercy. Believing the fact that a priest could absolve him of all of his sins before going into the crusades. His beloved wife to be nearly killed because of a debt of vengeance from a heretic that vowed to kill his family because Dante used infidelity with the heretic's wife thinking it was just a moment of lust without betrayal. Yet when his wife to be was taken from him by Lucifer, it was just all a bait game to have Dante free Lucifer from his confines in the cold bitter hell which Lucifer must remain in. This is a classic story of good versus evil, to see Dante roam hell through the nine gates of each deadly sin and to discover himself through these progressions was nothing short of genius. Although the animation could have been a bit more fluid, the story was more than enough to make up for the lack of animation. Yet to see Dante roam purgatory forever was a bit sad. He could not join his wife to be yet as he was appointed to wander the wastelands alone. Neither alive or dead. Just a spirit without form or resolve. His story was far worse than it seemed after the battles, because it's all he knows. Nothing else could have freed his soul, no battles, no objectives, no Honor, no last rites. Dante will forever be damned until he finally comes to grips with his past, and his sins. Remarkable movie, highly recommended to those over 18, intense gore, some nudity, and horrific scenes make this a cult classic.

This was one of the worst things I've seen in a long time. I got maybe a third of the way through on it Netflix while skipping through annoying parts and eventually just gave up on it because it was too painful to watch. It seems to try to follow the book by using quotes here and there, but almost every other detail is far from the original story. I didn't see the point either, because the "creative licenses" that were taken only detracted from it significantly. Since when is Dante a crusader? It was painfully corny. The voice acting was way too affected and overdone in every part that I watched. I'm shocked to see this was actually a pretty big production, because it felt like something some weird kid made in his basement.To emphasize my displeasure, I'd like to say that I've never written a review of any type for a movie and would usually consider it a waste of time, but this was much too disgustingly bad not too. I strongly recommend not watching this unless you crave torture or want to see a textbook example of how not to make a movie.

I enjoyed this movie, despite the literary and animation flaws mentioned in several reviews. I have no interest in video games and no desire to read the classic tale, but various paintings and quotations from the story have captured my attention for many years (decades):"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". There have been many classic stories that I somehow never had to read in high-school, but when I have come across them in video form, I want to see what I might have missed. I wholeheartedly agree that the book is always better than the movie, but if not for movies, I might never have enjoyed such classics as Wuthering Heights, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. So it is with Dante's Inferno, a.k.a., The Divine Comedy. I don't know how close to the original story this animated epic is, but after viewing this movie, I have a much better idea of what the story is all about. I don't have to write a thesis on the story, but I could explain the plot to someone, and I recognized many of the character and place names that I have heard, but didn't truly know. **So that's why some narrow-minded old fuddie-duddies used to say the rock band Styx was a Devil-worshiping cult.