There is a history of horror movies getting undervalued by awards season. Last year one in particular that drew attention was Mia Goth and her performance in Pearl. The movie as a whole was absolutely snubbed as its quality could most definitely go toe to toe with anything nominated last year. But we will have a more in depth discussion on that later. Pearl won me over and I will now watch anything that stars Mia Goth. Which brings me to Infinity Pool. I am now presenting my formal review for Mia Goth’s latest appearance, Infinity Pool.
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The story is unnecessarily chaotic. The whole movie was just for shock value and there was nothing to it. I don’t need a big thematic drive in every movie, but I do expect coherency and there simply was none. There was no story, and you can barely decipher a plot. This has to be one of the worst movies of the year. At least the other bad movies had a story, poorly executed stories that were in fact, not good. But they had stories. Infinity Pool lacks any kind of narrative and watching it was truly a waste of time. The only semi-redeemable thing about this movie is Mia Goth.
Honestly the pacing is really slow, I would have liked for the story to have moved a little faster. Once we’ve established the weird tone you really could have just gone for it. Now I think the point of the pacing was to establish some more unease in the story but that wasn’t necessary. I hate when stories are dragged down by directors or writers going too hard into their point. The cinematography did its job, I didn’t need upsettingly slow pacing also. It’s the difference between having a story to tell and actually knowing how to tell it.
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