Presented on Paramount +, the streaming service first legitimate motion picture exclusively on their platform. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, and Jason Mantzoukas. The film has gotten polarizing reviews from critics. The showing of emotional turmoil on Mark Wahlberg's face was not achieved in this movie of when high stakes or story dictates a situation of crisis. The counter argument is that maybe he is on his medication and it has taken the edge off his anxiety.
Few films have their star narrate at the start of the movie, it helps sets up this world, the players, the motivations, and the overall tone of this movie. We begin the movie in 1985, and move forward to present year 2020 or 2021. The McGuffin is a device to destroy the world, and its a race to recover it first, Wahlberg's last appearance was in 1985, and both sides need him alive to recover the missing device.
The movie is based on a novel the 'The Reincarnationist Papers', from author D. Eric Maikranz. This was his first novel he wrote and self published in 2009. The author's story is remarkable that he publicized to anyone out there including his readers that as you'll find on the front page of his book he was offering 10% of any advance if his novel can be introduced to a Hollywood producer who would adapt his book into a movie. As bizarre as it might seem a Junior executive in Hollywood found his book while travelling in a hostel in Nepal and pushed it forward to the right people to get it made, and according to reports on December 2019 the Junior Executive received his 10% cut.
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| Director Fuqua & Wahlberg |
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, who directed Training Day, Southpaw, King Arthur, and the Magnificent Seven. The Screenplay was adapted by Ian Shorr who has written lesser known episodes for television smaller independent films, and shorts. The reception of Infinite has not been good and success of Ian Shorr's climb into bigger Hollywood productions maybe on shakey ground because of it.
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