In the Hand of Dante

Gal Gadot acting is awful! Nothing to see, just an empty face! I don't understand who even hiers her?! Obvoulsy you gave too much money to throw it like that! There are so many good or fabulos actresses who would do this role much better. I hope you will give them a chance and not to Gal who has no talent!

This is by far one of the most beautifully well thought out stories ever to be put to screen with an absolutely perfect cast, stunning cinematography, shocking grit, wondrous romance, diabolical humor, and incredible attention to detail. You will want to watch it again immediately. I don't know why people are grading this so low on here. Filmmaking and storytelling are at their absolute peak, here. Even if you're not a romantic, I don't see how you could deny this film it's flowers.

I miss these kinds of films.

Gorgeous, and I cant wait to watch over and over throughout the rest of my life.

10/10 Perfect.

The Black and White cinematography is as close to art as Black and White cinematography can get. For some of the two hours-40 minutes of the movie, the Black and White cinematography was the actual star of the movie infusing a surrealistically divine presence.

Oscar Isaac gave a solid bravado of a performance.

Gal Gadot looks like a goddess in Black and White.

Al Pacino's cameo as Uncle Carmine was, I thought, the absolutely best 4'40" of the whole movie. The man can act and convince you it's real.

Martin Scorcese's cameo was Dumbledore on drugs with an incredibly long beard.

There is a lot of death by murder, cold and quick.

But where is Dante?

Well, he is in hand, for when the plot needs some uncontested justification to keep us from walking out. But we wouldn't anyway because the Black and White cinematography is just too well done.

As for the Divine Comedy, Inferno is where you try to figure out what's going on, Purgatory is the moments when you think that maybe you figured it out, and Paradise is Gal Gadot in black and white. Oh, that skin tone!

First off this is brilliantly photographed, and a superstar cast, some showing the ravages of age, an adaption of a pseudo biography of Dante. It flits between 4:4 resolution in color,during 400 years ago,and present day in Monochrome full wide screen.

Is this a time travel experience for the cast?

Schnabel has managed to get the crew together and give them past and present roles.

There is a lot of over the top violence, ruthlessness, where humanity bares it's feral attributes.

This is all window dressing for a love story across the centuries and reincarnation at it's conclusion.

Definitely not a one time watch, or watch it on a streamer, and pause like a bookmark, and enjoy each chunk.... A Bargain Bucket for some.

In classy, long, star-studded drama "In The Hand Of Dante" NY mobster John Malkovich hires literary expert Oscar Isaac (son of Al Pacino (cameo)) & goon Gerard Butler to steal from the Italian mafia the priceless original manuscript of Dante Alighieri's 'The Divine Comedy' (shown in flashback sequences with Isaac, Butler, Gal Gadot (also with dual roles) & Martin Scorcese) - but the mafia's Jason Momoa wants it back. Blending Tarantinoesque violence & characters with beautiful photography and artsy themes (that only get too much in Scorcese's scenes) co-writer (with Louise Kugelberg) / director Julian Schnabel lands a winner - it's a fine movie.