Infinite Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

2. Antoine Fuqua's Disappointingly Generic Direction

Not all of Antoine Fuqua's movies are great works of cinema, but he's generally a director studios can rely upon to deliver rock solid, visually enticing results - Training Day, Shooter, both Equalizer movies, Southpaw, and The Magnificent Seven all speak for themselves.

Hugely disappointing it is, then, that Infinite is surely his most anonymous, disinterested work to date.

Beyond the fact that the film smacks overwhelmingly of an early 2000s sci-fi actioner, there's just no visual personality to the film at all, full as it is of oddly cheap-looking, plastic-y CGI.

Fuqua clearly knows both how to produce a sharp image and work with actors - he directed Denzel Washington to a Best Actor Oscar in Training Day, after all - but neither the style nor the performances feel up to the filmmaker's usual solid standard, regardless of the script.

Never more has Fuqua directed a movie that truly felt like a hack-for-hire project, and that's tremendously disappointing.