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‘INFINITE’: ANTOINE FUQUA & MARK WAHLBERG’S INCEPT THEMSELVES INTO THE MOUNTAIN
DEW MATRIX OF THIRD-RATE SCI-FI [REVIEW]

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What fresh hell is this? If you loved the films of Christopher Nolan (and the
Wachowskis), but perhaps only had the [almost] total recall talent of Wally
Pfister (ouch, sorry) and you came across an “Inception”-esque high-concept
script—reincarnation past lives, fuzzy memory, James Bond action, and slick
cars—maybe you have to supercharge the idea. Maybe a fantastical sci-fi-ish
conception of a world where Infinites— Believers vs. Nihilists—battle for
supremacy— isn’t quite enough. Maybe you have to pour Mountain Dew or a Monster
Energy Drink over the head of the creator who’s overheated from a delirious
36-hour writing jag— electrolytes soaking into the skin, dissolving into the
neuro-system, speeding through the veins like am “X-Men” movie opening title
sequence about X-Treme DNA— and then the movie really superconducts. Because
that’s what “Infinite,” the new Paramount+ sci-fi thriller feels like: a
third-rate “Inception” meets “Transcendence” guzzled by adrenaline junkie X-Game
daredevils who fixed jumper cables to their can of RC Cola mixed with pop rocks
or whatever. It’s also, perhaps more obviously, a bargain basement “Matrix,”
shamelessly cribbing from the film’s concept with Marky Mark as the (white),
initially clueless, savior character that will fix everything once he ascends to
his rightful position in the prophecy.

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Director Antoine Fuqua’s fantasy thriller “Infinite” starring Wahlberg, is
stupendously dumb and deeply insipid. Taking its cues from the aforementioned
Nolan/Wachowski school of high-concept—extraordinary sci-fi tropes meet muscular
grounded action set pieces—“Infinite” has a story and (bland) basic idea. Still,
it mostly feels like a crass excuse to stitch one excessive action set piece to
the next. “Infinite” also just feels insultingly anonymous, as it was wheeled
out of the I.P, “potential franchise” factory, shiny, slick, and new, but
utterly soulless, unoriginal, and uninspired.

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Because the “Infinite” premise is interesting in theory but lazily executed in
practice. “New technology has given the Nihilists an opportunity to end all life
on earth,” Wahlberg says in a painfully banal, over-explainy voiceover that
spoon-feeds the audience the simplistic premise and conflict (good guys vs. bad
guys, both of whom have the power to keep living on infinitely via
reincarnation).“And the race is on for its control,” he concludes before, VROOM,
VROOOM, VROOM, “Infinite” explodes into an epic and ridiculous car chase
sequence that crescendos with Dylan O’Brien purposely whipping his shiny
Maserati off a bridge, timing it so perfectly that the spin ejects him into the
air, throwing him towards construction scaffolding that he can cling to with a
sword while the sports car crashes in a fiery doom.

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It should be said, as ridiculous as this sequence is, it’s terrifically crafted
for its sense of increasing throttle, stakes, urgency, and reckless
viscera—Fuqua really knows how to craft, build and orchestrate an action
sequence and one that feels very practical and in-camera with wild stunts
(mostly practical anyhow). Unfortunately for him, Wahlberg and the audience, his
level of cinematic sophistication ends there, and the minimal delights of such
excess don’t last. That opening voice-over might be the dumbest, laziest,
unimaginative monologue opening to a movie you’ve ever heard. More importantly,
it sounds like Wahlberg is doped up on narcotics and has given up even
pretending he’s trying, much like the movie. Wahlberg is on such auto-pilot in
the movie, delivering hackneyed, trite jokes at the end of each sentence, and
this opening declamation, bored and sleepy, is such a portentous preview of
what’s to come (I will say “Infinite” is so ludicrous it’s enjoyable stupid at
first, but that doesn’t last long).

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So “Infinite” centers on Evan McCauley (Wahlberg), a guy, we’re told, who is a
diagnosed schizophrenic is, has been in and out of mental hospitals for years
and once carved “look inside” on his chest with box cutters. He is haunted by
past memories that don’t feel like they are his own. He also possesses unnatural
skills and abilities he’s unclear how he ever learned: making an immaculately
perfect Hattori Hanzō samurai sword. Long story short, he’s an Infinite and
doesn’t know it yet. The convoluted premise of the film centers on trying to
convince McCauley who he is, that the upending of this derealization is not a
psychotic break, and unlock his past former live memories, so the cadre of
virtuous Infinites can locate “the egg”— the infamous whatsit MacGuffin that’s
needed to stop the end of the world. But Bathurst 2020 (a hammy, scene-chewing
Chiwetel Ejiofor who I hope earned a good paycheck for this dismal gig), who
believe Infinitism is a curse that he wants to end with world destruction
(bleh), has other plans, mainly also trying to crack McCauley’s memories so he
can find the egg first.

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Many Believers come to the aid of McCauley, trying to unscramble his brain. Mora
Brightman (Sophie Cookson) is the “Matrix” Trinity figure, explicating to
McCauley that this isn’t a delusion and essentially spouting expository dialogue
about the Infinite rules. Other “Matrix”-like team members include Kovic
(Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), Trace (Kae Alexander), and eventually, the
Artisan, a kooky ad-hoc doctor played by a ridiculous, eye-shadow-wearing Jason
Mantzoukas (Toby Jones, Tom Hughes, Liz Carr, and Joana Ribeiro co-star). But
chiefly, they just fodder for the main collision of McCauley and Bathurst, his
mortal enemy from many lifetimes ago.

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“Infinite” leans heavily on “The Matrix” but never once stops to consider
something deeper. Not even the adjacent (and rather pedestrian) metaphysical
thoughts of reincarnation and past lives that the Wachowskis borrowed from
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s entire career for “Cloud Atlas.” This would be asking too
much as one often asks themselves: did a car commercial direct this? The premium
placed on upmarket, glossy, muscular cars is so conspicuous that Fuqua scored
buyback product placement cash. Elon Musk would surely be enamored and call it
“edgy.” It’s essentially that kind of movie, “The Matrix” and Nolan-lite for
dudes who check their bitcoin futures during the movie on their smartphones.
Sick, bro. [D]



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