Infinity Pool (2023)
5/10
Intriguing buildup, confusing payoff
18 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This movie follows a writer and his woman (a.k.a. Source of money) on an island vacation. The guy's got writer's block, or something, and he's looking for inspiration. They meet a few interesting characters who convince them to go on a joy ride. While returning to their "compound", their vehicle strikes and kills a man. From there, things get weird.

The island has a policy that those who kill must be killed. But they've got a trick up their sleeve as well: they clone people. If they're paid enough, they're willing to clone the perpetrator and put the clone to death rather than kill the real person. The question that arises though is of course, when it's all said and done, has the original person survived, or has the clone?

Through an increasingly silly and unexplainable turn of events, the main character (man) winds up with a total of three urns, indicating that he'd been cloned not once but three times. My guess is that they intend the original who is cloned is the one who gets killed afterword each time. But in the end the answer to that question / assumption apparently makes no difference, because the movie just ends.

Overall I would say the movie deserves credit for creating a sense of creepy and unsettling atmosphere throughout, but it comes at the expense of a sensible plot. I'm all for art, but if you put a big fat F at the beginning it becomes something else entirely.
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