Earlier today, I watched the Brandon Cronenberg-directed horror crime mystery Infinity Pool at AMC theaters.
This is quite a twisted film...with Alexander Skarsgård playing James Foster, a struggling author who travels to an unnamed country (which is Croatia and Hungary in real life) that punishes international travelers who commit crimes on its soil by forcing these visitors to be cloned, and then making these tourists sit and watch as their doppelgängers are viciously executed by local government officials.
Mia Goth contributes a wonderfully psychotic performance to Infinity Pool—playing Gabi Bauer, a fellow tourist who Foster befriends (that's an understatement) at the resort he's staying at. I never watched Goth's recent movies X and Pearl, but if Goth's portrayal of Gabi in Pool is anything similar to her performances in those horror flicks, then I'm totally missing out on seeing what an amazing young talent Goth is!
Overlooking Goth's presence and Infinity Pool's inventive premise, the movie was a bit much to sit through...even for its 117-minute running time. If you want to see a movie that has lots of gratuitous nudity and a scene filled with so many flashing lights that you're afraid you just might suffer a seizure inside the theater auditorium, then Infinity Pool is definitely the film for you!
I'll give Infinity Pool 7 out of 10 stars.
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