Italy 2017 120m Directed by: Louis Nero. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen, Christopher Lambert, Geraldine Chaplin, Franco Nero, William Baldwin, Maria de Medeiros, Kabir Bedi, Marc Fiorini, Andrea Cocco, Diana Dell'Erba, Walter Lippa, Marco Deambrogio. Music by: Lamberto Curtoni.
A series of murders leads a British scholar of ancient Italian origins, to walk on the path traced, so many centuries before, by Dante Alighieri and the painter Hieronymus Bosch. He discovers that the murders were commited to preserve a secret as old as the world itself.
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A patchwork quilt screenplay requires one character after another to help further a plot about ancient Egyptian cults and Turin, Italy in the year 2030. For an incomprehensible 2 hours. Archeologist Andrea Coco looks miserable throughout while searching through the cool character actors (Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lambert) on the movie's guest list. And the whole cast is dubbed with wretchedly mixed sound. The insistent, pompous scoring doesn't help, and as events take place, there is less and less suspense to any of it. The plot is enough to confusebore even hardened followers of this genre.
Best thing to do, in order to amuse oneself during the movie's self-important exposition: say the movie's title out loud, wait several seconds, then let out an enormous wet bottom-burp strong enough to send ripples through both butt cheeks.
Review by HughBennie-777 from the Internet Movie Database.