‘Infinite’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Action-Thriller Overspends and Underwhelms
Cars and planes blow up real good in a film that feels like everybody’s paycheck project
Elizabeth Weitzman | June 10, 2021 @ 12:01 AM
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If you’ve ever wished that video games could look more like real life or that real life could look more like video games Antoine Fuqua is here to fulfill your fantasies.
Many of the actors in the Paramount+ release “Infinite” might as well be avatars; You can picture the green screens as you’re watching the complicated set pieces, and there is no emotional investment required or even requested. But it delivers what it promises, in the form of expensive spectacle.
[I]t coalesces as a convoluted and tired “chosen one” story that inspires an empty performance from Mark Wahlberg and some world-class scenery chewing from Chiwetel Ejiofor.