Mark Wahlberg’s latest movie
Infinite is still a month or so away in Australia, but it’s been out overseas for a while and it’s safe to say the reviews haven’t been kind. Much of the merciless mocking has focused on an early scene where Wahlberg’s character – who lives in New York City, and works in restaurant crowd control – is in need of some quick cash to buy anti-psychotic medication. So he ducks into an abandoned warehouse, lights up a fire, and proceeds to forge a genius-level Japanese katana sword to swap for the pills.
Is the scene a ruthless indictment of the US medical system? A way to give Wahlberg’s character a fancy sword he can cut people up with? Something to do on camera where he doesn’t have to speak? We won’t know until later in the year, but one thing’s for sure: it won’t be anywhere near as cool as an episode of