PhantomKnight
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jun 25, 2021 21:46:16 GMT -5
You know, on SOME level, I figured I might get some sort of entertainment out of Infinite. After all, I kind of have a soft spot for these types of secret organizations-protecting-the-world-over-the-centuries plots. But it didn't take long for me to realize that this particular one was going to be a slog.
Ultimately, this feels like such a nothing-burger of a movie, that not a lot a whole lot of time needs to be spent elaborating on why it's so bad. But it really just comes down to the fact that this movie doesn't feel like it has a script so much as it does a checklist of every cliche and every plot point one would normally associate with a movie like this, and each and every one of those boxes is checked off dutifully and without any attempt at originality or personality. Or even entertainment, for that matter. The cast is made up largely of stiff, stock characters for a story like this, with the only one who feels like they have any semblance of a personality being Jason Mantzoukas. The plot is standard MacGuffin-fueled fare where both sides are racing to retrieve this powerful weapon/artifact that has the ability to end all life because of course. The action sequences are bland, over-Hollywoodized homogenizations of noises and flashy images, and overall, the movie is just bland and boring. Which is honestly kind of a shame, because if nothing else, Antoine Fuqua is usually reliable for solid action movies. But Infinite feels every bit like the paycheck movie it clearly is, and it's easy to see why Paramount sent it packing to their streaming service.
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Dracula
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Post by Dracula on Sept 26, 2021 19:15:07 GMT -5
Infinite(9/3/2021)
I’ve complained a lot this year about certain movies getting dumped onto streaming services when they deserved better but few movies got dumped more unceremoniously than the Antoine Fuqua directed Mark Wahlberg vehicle Infinite which didn’t even get dumped onto a popular service like Disney+ or Netflix… it got banished to Paramount Plus, a service enjoyed by very few but which I do periodically subscribe to in order to catch up with “The Good Fight” and that is how I ended up watching Infinite… a movie that actually probably did deserve its fate. Infinite is not a terrible movie, it’s made professionally and moves along reasonably enough but it’s extremely bland and derivative. It looks at an ordinary-ish guy who has it revealed to him that there’s a war going on between an underground of people who can recall all their past lives with one side wanting to end the world and the other side trying to stop them, and the guy who has all this revealed to them is this super important chosen one who needs to access his past life memories in order to save the world. That “underground of immortals” concept will bring to mind last year’s The Old Guard but really the movie even more shamelessly rips off in terms of story structure is The Matrix. Granted some of this is basically just standard “hero’s journey” stuff but still, this is such a direct copy that even the most casual of viewer will make the connection. Unlike The Matrix however this thing doesn’t really have any stand-out action movie visuals to make it the slightest bit memorable and beyond that it’s just kind of bland as hell. It’s the kind of movie you almost wish was worse than it was just so that it would be memorable in its blandness but instead this thing is just the most vanilla white bread product you’re likely to ever see.
** out of Five
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