Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

jeziovah I shall start by saying i loved the game so had high expectations of this film, i thought it was OK up until just after greed, what annoyed me about the film was it bad acting, i didn't feel a connection between the voices and the actions that were taken e.g Beatrice was just poorly presented as a character especially when she was with the devil. Also i didn't get why most of the characters changed appearance the further Dante went into hell including the main character himself, i just felt it was a big let down for both animation and story compared to that of the game. I almost fell asleep during this so i'd skip this if you loved the game and are expecting better

IDontRideBarrels This is a R-rated animated film based on an M-rated video game based on the classic story of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. As one might expect, this isn't quite faithful to the 14th-century source material.The reinvented plot is this: Dante is a knight in the Crusades, and when he returns home he finds dead bodies. The soul of his girlfriend/fiancé Beatrice is in the process of being taken by Lucifer, so Dante runs after her in an attempt to prevent Beatrice from being taken into Hell. He's stopped at the gates to Hell, which are puzzlingly close to where he lived. You'd think someone would have noticed, since they're very large and it's not like they're hidden very well. Weird stuff unnecessarily happens and he quickly passes through the gates. The film then follows Dante through the nine circles of Hell on his quest to save Beatrice's soul, which is always just out of reach, and later fight Lucifer.Plot holes and inconsistencies abound. The characters don't make up for it either.Dante as a character isn't all that interesting. He has to face his many sins as he goes ever deeper, but he's relentless in his pursuit of Beatrice and as a result there isn't much character development. He's very single-minded. Beatrice is even more boring, relegated as nothing more than a busty damsel-in-distress plot device. She's praised by Lucifer for her "purity" but supposedly she sold her soul for Dante's safe return from the Crusades — that doesn't sound very pure. How did she sell her soul, anyway? It's never explained, as far as I can recall. Did she summon demons? How would she know how to do that? Virgil is in his role as a guide, and that's fine. He directs Dante through Hell and gives periodic advice, nothing more. He's also basically the only character who's always fully clothed.As for everything else, it's actually somewhat interesting. The environments could have been a little better, but that's personal opinion. The artists did a good job overall of portraying what Hell might look like if based very loosely on the original Inferno. The demons and various monsters look pretty cool with a few mildly comedic moments. The character designs themselves are nicely done (visually).Although the film is split into several parts, with a different animation studio (there are 5: Film Roman, Manglobe, Dongwoo Animation, JM Animation, Production I.G.) responsible for each part, the storyline remains linear and is pretty easy to follow. The art styles changing periodically is mildly distracting but they don't differ excessively. Unfortunately, the quality suffers a lot in certain parts — the characters look noticeably different, proportions are wildly inaccurate, etc.Some parts are much better than others. With regard to the whole, this film is vaguely entertaining and has neat ideas… but fails in a lot of aspects. It might be worth at least one viewing depending on your interests but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to everyone. If you want an rated-R animated epic I'd point you in the direction of the series Berserk (1997) instead of this.4.5/10

Neil Welch I quite enjoyed this animated feature version of Dante's Inferno (An Animated Epic, it says here modestly), but I wouldn't pretend that it was 100% successful. My knowledge of Dante's poem is sketchy, so I can't comment on how closely (or not) this film followed it. I'm even less familiar with the video game which gave rise to this so, again, I can't comment.Taken on its own, the visuals are very striking - impressively so - but they suffer from the fact that multiple animation houses have been used. That was something which worked well in The Animatrix and Gotham Knight, where the standalone nature of the individual episodes facilitates - embraces, perhaps, a diversity of animation styles. Here, a switch of styles loses the continuity which a single narrative requires.The voice performances are not well served by the script: both tend towards the melodramatic at worst and the merely functional at best.Even so, if you are an animation fan and you have a leaning towards the fantastic (and the gory and the mildly sexual) you may well find there is a moderate amount to enjoy here.

david-kenyeres Well. I'm pretty sure everybody is familiar with the original Dante's Inferno, the story changed a bit and Dante this time isn't that Dante but a crusader and takes a rather bloody journey into the nine circles of hell. The prologue is drawn by Film Roman, not the best part of the movie but far from the worst.Then comes the only part I enjoyed, Limbo which was drawn by Manglobe, a dark Gothic atmosphere that is lost in the upcoming circles drawn by other studios. It is semi realistic (real world rules with an added layer of twisted fantasy) Dante is a hardened veteran of the holy war seeking to rescue his beloved and nothing more, nothing less.After Limbo you are tortured by Dongwoo Animation, and you literally have to endure hell to watch the movie any further as the upcoming four tiers are simply awful. Just an example, apparently for these Korean folks the Cerberus is a three-headed WORM and not a dog, at least they should have put their facts right. Of course Dante by a miracle became a one-man army slicing through skulls, spines, bones and whole bodies vertically with ease, while his physique suggests the opposite.At City of Dis another Korean studio, JM Animation takes over until the 9th tier. Dante reincarnates again as a super hero but with matching looks this time. The differences between the two studios stop here. There are random explosions when Dante is pushed against the ground or simply when his and a former friend's weapons clash in battle, God knows why.The ninth and last tier as a kind of reward (you would think) for all the suffering of the previous 7 tiers, is animated by Production I.G. Yeah the animation is superb but the story. Despite Dante's vow to God thus imprisoning Lucifer once more he still enters the Purgatory.All in all, the story had some potential but it is ruined by the terrible implementation.Thumbs down.