Worst movie by Anton Fuqua

"Infinite" fails at the minimum requirements of science fiction

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Sure enough, Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Toby Jones have agreed, in good faith, to join the distinguished filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua, in Infinite, a breathtaking sci-fi action thriller.

On paper, the idea is excellent: warriors from bygone centuries change their bodies to save humanity. There are two sides: the “infinites” who are the good people, and the “nihilists” who believe that life is worthless and seek to destroy humanity.

Destroyer Bathurst (Ejiofor) searches for the Silver Egg imbued with the power of life destruction, which includes preventing the Infinites from changing bodies, and of course there is one man named Evan McCauley (Wolberg), who has information about the weapon's location but doesn't know it yet.

The film is based on Ian Shore and Todd Steen's adaptation of De Eric Mikranz's novel, The Reincarnationist Papers, and features elements from "The Old Guard" (2020) and "The Matrix" (1999), with spices from Luc Besson's 1997 "The Fifth Element".

But the film fails in everything that the aforementioned films succeeded in. Instead of making a film with an idea that was better treated and away from tradition that would have been unique, Fuqua relies on special effects and a complex story, which resulted in the worst film in the man's career.

From the beginning Fuqua tries to build a huge world, but fails to compose a visual language that keeps pace, especially since science fiction requires it, and this is the least thing that can be done in light of a weak and complex story, the events begin in the Mexican capital during the "last life", and there are three infinite in the A long car chase in empty streets, but it has nothing to do with logic, and nothing in the scene tells us what time we are in, but according to the Wikipedia page of the film, it is in 1985.

We move to this time and life in New York City, on Manhattan Street covered in orange sunshine, as if the photo was from the Shutterstock service!

We see Evan in a job interview at a fancy restaurant, and the interview seems easy were it not for his troubled past. Years ago, Evan attacked a customer who molested a waitress.

Evan blames the accident for his schizophrenia, which makes him hear voices in his head and see dreams that he confuses with reality.

At one point he sees that he is a Japanese swordsman and crafts a sword, and in order to stop these visions he is forced to rely on the medicines he buys by selling his swords to a drug dealer. If that happens, trouble will happen, and this is what really happens, but did we need to hear that weak phrase to understand the events of the film!

Fuqua often uses Wahlberg's voice to explain complex events, almost impossible to understand without asking questions, or he uses this tool (the hero's voice) to express his feelings, and here the topic is further complicated by the poor text: “Have you had a dream that seemed so real that you thought it was a memory? ?

Are you surprised when you look at yourself in the mirror?

Are there things you would do better because you remember them and do not learn them?”

A question for the author of this topic: Are these legitimate questions from a character embodied in a new life (if the previous phrase had meaning), or questions for a man who takes medication to stabilize his mind because he thinks he is mentally ill?

And why don't the pills spoil those memories or visions?

This is a movie that makes you regret that you decided to watch it, and makes you regret that you tried to understand it, because like a madman he babbles.

Evan appears on Bathurst and the Infinites' radar, and while Ejiofor is a well-known and talented actor, playing the only death-wanting villain, we feel nothing about his performance that asks more questions than it gives us a distinct personality.

Who is Bathurst?

Why is he so rich?

And where are the rest of the nihilists?

Why lead them?

And how did that happen?

The same for the Infinites: Their leader is Professor X, the wheelchair-bound Garrick (Liz Carr) leads the team and we know nothing of her story, its elite soldiers are Kovik (Icelandic Johannes Hokur Johansen), and seasoned fighter Nora (Sophie Cookson).

The team hopes that Evan is the avatar of Treadwell, and the second is the agent who hid the silver egg earlier, for Nora in particular, she wants to see her former lover, his soul imprisoned by Bathurst, and Nora thinks that getting the egg will free his imprisoned soul.

There's no dynamic in the relationship between the trio (Evan, Nora and Bathurst), and the supposed dynamic between the researchers, led by Toby Jones and the neurologist Jason Mantzoukas, doesn't work at all.

It's clear that Fuqua isn't quite as good at sci-fi as he is a master at executing action scenes, on which he has built all his experience since entering Hollywood in 1998.

The film contains good and incomprehensible action scenes for the speed of the montage, Johansen and Ejiofor's fight scene is sloppy, and it is clear that two alternative actors were performing the scene.

Our dear reader, the Paramount Company was implicated in this lousy movie, so it put it on the “Paramount Plus” service on the Internet, because it knows that it will fail in the cinema, so do not involve yourself in watching it even for free!

• This is a movie that makes you regret that you decided to watch it, and makes you regret that you tried to understand it, because it is like a madman delirious.

• On paper, the idea is excellent: warriors from centuries past transform their bodies to save humanity.

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