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

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Boring as all the hells it represents, no story, no cadence, no nothing after an eternal wait. You will feel you are in the all of the hells for the good hour and a half it lasts. Do not watch it.

Based on Electronic Arts' video game entitled, Dante's Inferno – taken from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy comes an epic gameplay battle through the hounds of hell.Dante's Inferno – An Animated Epic is an essential walk-through on animation platform. Each scenes has a different chapter title similar to the game and the written book.The scene begins with Dante returning from the Third Crusade to find his home in a bloody mess, his father died. And his beloved Beatrice was on her last breathe. Then she turn into a spirit and before she could ascend to Heaven – a demonic shadow: Lucifer appeared and take her away into Hell.The film is like an indirect walk-through to the game. Setting on a journey to save the soul of your love because you betrayed your trust. I mean "you" as the character itself.Battling foul demons and all those sinners via the stages of Hell and lastly Lucifer himself. Each chapter was directed by various directors and you can see the difference of the animated art in it. Fascinating doesn't it?However, if you have not played the game – watching this does not give you real kick because not everything on the game is on the animation.

Reading about Dante's Inferno and the nine levels of hell really can be a trip. Trying to imagine what each level is like alone, is a big task. But once this film has been viewed, their will be no other way of thinking about them. It took six directors to make this film come together and they did a swell job with it too. There are some small tid-bits that need to be addressed but overall this film will leave a long lasting impression.The story starts off with Dante returning home from a battle to see his family and fiancé, Beatrice, slain. It is to his own eyes that he witnesses the devil take his fiancé's soul into hell. From there it spirals down to where Dante goes through each level of hell to save Beatrice. This is where things get interesting. The animation and art crew who designed what the levels of hell look like are very surreal and quite imaginative. Each level of hell has its own trait that makes it specifically different and more horrifying than the one before it. The voice cast for this movie was good too. All the voices sounded pretty neat for whatever role they were portraying. The one most distinctly known was Mark Hamill's voice, mostly because his voice sounded like The Joker. But seriously, who doesn't like hearing that voice? My favorite character was Virgil, voiced by Peter Jessop. I just enjoyed how Virgil was nonchalant about the whole situation of being in hell with Dante, as if he didn't care! Graham McTavish acted Dante's voice and he did a good job as well. The only thing that viewers could dealt without is Dante's repetitive and obsessive use of the word "Beatrice". I understand that he wants to save his loved one but it gets annoying to hear it in every other sentence.The other elements that I could not relinquish from my mind were the grisly images that I saw. This film comes off as an action/horror genre epic. That's what I couldn't grasp about it. Reading Dante's Inferno is more like a stroll through hell and this film didn't allow any contemplation. It was more focused on Dante saving his girl from hell. There's plenty of blood and guts to go around though. I can't even begin to think of how much fake blood would have to be used if this was converted to live-action. While watching, it brought me back to when I saw Dead Alive (1992), which also was a gore-fest. Ahhh those bloody memories.Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic may be a little more oriented to the action genre but there is still an abundance of horror meshed inside. Also kudos to the animation and art crew for their distinctive take on Dante Alighieri's journey through hell.

I enjoyed this movie, despite the literary and animation flaws mentioned in several reviews. I have no interest in video games and no desire to read the classic tale, but various paintings and quotations from the story have captured my attention for many years (decades):"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". There have been many classic stories that I somehow never had to read in high-school, but when I have come across them in video form, I want to see what I might have missed. I wholeheartedly agree that the book is always better than the movie, but if not for movies, I might never have enjoyed such classics as Wuthering Heights, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. So it is with Dante's Inferno, a.k.a., The Divine Comedy. I don't know how close to the original story this animated epic is, but after viewing this movie, I have a much better idea of what the story is all about. I don't have to write a thesis on the story, but I could explain the plot to someone, and I recognized many of the character and place names that I have heard, but didn't truly know. **So that's why some narrow-minded old fuddie-duddies used to say the rock band Styx was a Devil-worshiping cult.