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In the Hand of Dante
2025 English MovieDrama Crime Mystery
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A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
MAN OF CINEMA
" i put a hole where his soul is"
Surely he made a hole in the soul of Dante,
Schnabel Borrowed his Divine Comedy and turned into Divine Tragedy!
Its A long, boring, disoriented, wana be artistic, but also a thriller and also a periodic drama? which makes no sense at all. Its a confused, idiotic take on dante life.
The book intertwines between two separate timelines, one set in the 14th century in Italy featuring Dante Alighieri, and another story in the 2000s featuring a messed up, frustrated dante fanatic Nick Tosches as the protagonist. I liked the way Nick's character was established in the early, showing his frustration regarding his own book butchered by editors, and also his obsession with dante's work, especially "The divine comedy". The Gangster Louie's character is also established in the beginning, showing us the no nonsense, sadistic, hitman.
My problem is with the amount of time it wastes on buildup and introduction to the heist, which itself was very foolish and silly, the way it was executed.
Anyway, As the historical and modern stories show, How Dante tries to finish writing his magnum opus and goes on a journey for mystical knowledge in Sicily. Meanwhile, Nick, as a Dante expert, is called in for a heist and to authenticate the manuscript of The Divine Comedy supposedly written by Dante himself.
I was just laughing at that near climax shootout scene, where gal gadot comes in with a gun and starts blabbering dialogue in a funny way. Then one after another every one dies just like that, like its some skit from instagram reel lol, it was so bad and cringe to watch. And somehow gal gadot is alive after that bullet hitting her and she goes straight into an unconscious state without any pain 😂.
I liked Scorsese's cameo, who plays jacob, Dante's teacher. The rest of the casting was so bad, gadot, jason mamoa did not make any effect at all. Oscar Isaac really carried the whole movie on his shoulder, but it was enough, the stupid screenplay, the adaptation and execution failed him and Dante.
The film also metaphorically follows three phases of Divine Comedy Inferno , Purgatorio, and Paradiso. But you don't really feel the deeper meaning of those phases in any way in the movie.
I would rename the movie and call it "In the hand of moron"
12 Aug’25 05:16