One of the main sources of joy that has Netflix It’s in the catalog titles. It is not uncommon to see titles that are not his original productions among the most viewed films on the platform and I suspect that this is exactly what will happen in the case of ‘Infinite’, a science fiction feature film that you can already see there.
One of the peculiarities of ‘Infinite’ is that it was one of those films scheduled to be seen in theaters that ended up coming straight to streaming as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In the United States it was launched through Paramount +, while in Spain it could first be seen on Amazon Prime Video, but now it has made the leap to Netflix.
What a disappointment
For my part, I am clear that ‘Infinite’ was a major disappointment, since this adaptation of the novel by Mr. Eric Maikranz he proposes a very stimulating cocktail of ideas on paper that later serves as the basis for a film that is closer to nonsense than anything else. In its own way, it is still a kind of cross between ‘Matrix’, with Mark Wahlberg giving life to a kind of Neo, superhero cinema -there, for example, it is difficult not to remember ‘The old guard’, the discreet Netflix film starring Charlize Theron of which we will soon see a sequel.- and certain touches of ‘Origin’, the acclaimed film by Christopher Nolan.
Unfortunately, the plot base of ‘Infinite’ ends up being a hodgepodge that achieves something that has a strange merit: ending up being the most generic and at the same time often falling into nonsense. Not even having behind the scenes Antoine Fuquaone of the best action directors currently in Hollywood, serves to redeem it, since we are facing one of the worst films by the head of titles such as ‘Training Day’, ‘Objective: The White House’ or the saga ‘The Equalizer’whose third installment we should see this same 2023. It is true that the action scenes are above the rest, but not enough to compensate for everything else.
The result here is a film vastly inferior to all the films it draws from and wastes a premise that made one think of a great spectacle with some thoughtful touches. once seen, it is logical that Paramount sacrificed it to become mere streaming content.
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