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Once again, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) finds himself on a seemingly endless trail of clues in “Inferno,” the third installment of director Ron Howard’s series of films based on the books by Dan Brown. The film begins with kinetic editing and a suitably creepy voiceover by the character of Zobrist (Ben Foster), whose evil plan entails wiping out most of the world’s population.

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