"cast"
Jason Momoa
Gerard Butler
Martin Scorsese
Al Pacino
Gal Gadot
Oscar Isaac
John Malkovich
Franco Nero
Sabrina Impacciatore
In The Hand Of Dante -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333644/reference/
turned out to be not terrible.
Oscar Isaac, whom i do not not like as an actor - i don't know, i don't find him believable - is a criminal, together with Malkovic and Butler. he is also a (unsuccessful) writer and a historian.
Malkovich gets wind that some old mafia guy in italy has, stashed away, the original manuscript of the Divina Commedia - a work of art so incredibly important, it has no price - think, the Declaration of Independence, or the Magna Carta.
The gang goes to italy and kills the guy, and they steal the
constitution Divine Comedy.
There is the usual kerfuffle as this isn't exactly an easy item to place, given the worth and uniqueness. The mafia also has understood what has happened and wants it back - if anything, to sell it themselves.
The whole affair is shot in 4:3 and B&W, but, there are sections in the middle which are in color, and these are scenes where Isaac plays the actual Dante, in the 1300s.
Gal Gadot plays his "muse", as she is his lover both in the 1300s and in the 2000s section (the film is based during the 9/11 attacks .. and somehow they think we still had rotary phones, in italy).
Gadot finally embraces a role suitable for her, appearing as a vision of Venus, near-nude. Because the more she is naked, the less she talks.
Once again whatever computer system they are using in Hollywood glitched an cast Jason Momoa by mistake. He's still in the database as "actor" instead of "bricklayer".
.. it was okay. It was not particularly good. It's like some filmmaker asked ChatGPT "how to make a film really good in the traditional way" and then tried that, and some things are actually good, and then you'll see some thing that completely betrays that you don't actually know how to make a film.
It would have been much better *without* the color scenes. They add nothing. They are are extremely pretentious and irritating, and the (fake-ancient-language) dialogues are atrocious. The choice to have the same actors do different roles does not work as the roles do not tie-in between the modern and past stories.
Butler plays a sadist who turns out to be not relevant to the story at all.
Malkovic does the same thing he does every time.
I have no fucking idea what Al Pacino was doing in this film. Srsly.
Idk, it's a very dispersive film that doesn't tell a story in a well-laid-out way, and when it does, it's a fairly bland heist story. The filmography is just okaish.
6.5/10 - not the worst thing i've seen this year.
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