Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
Screenplay:
Brandon AumanCinematography:
Eiji AraiCast:
Mark Hamill, Grey Griffin, Graham McTavish, Victoria Tennant, Amanda Chism, Greg Ellis, Nicholas Guest, Vanessa Marshall, Kevin Michael Richardson (more)VOD (1)
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Crusader Dante returns home to discover that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul dragged into Hell. Refusing to give her up, he steals Death's scythe and chases after her... into the Inferno. Loosely based on the first part of 'The Divine Comedy', the animation segments in Dante's Inferno represent a Who's Who of major animation talent in Japan, Korea and the United States. (Anchor Bay)
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Renaissance classic mixed with anime, fantasy action supplemented by liters of blood. What sounds a bit suspicious at first glance ends up as a failed experiment. Because I don't have a rough game template or Alighieri's classic work behind me, I put my trust in the movie and got burnt badly. The story can be summed up in two sentences and the dialogues are ear-piercing when attempting to set a world record for the most frequent use of the words "Dante," "Beatrice," and "Forgive." The animation is indeed more than pleasant to look at, but when from the fifth to the last minute I watch fight, fight, melodramatic scream, and fight, it becomes quite a problem not to wish for the main hero's death at the hands of the nearest demon. The hell in the title unexpectedly became a foreshadowing of what awaits me.
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