From my
6.11.20 Variety review: “There’s something perversely
fascinating about a film as aggressively off-putting as Infamous, a lovers-on-the-run crime drama that practically defies
you to develop a rooting interest in its two dim-bulb lead characters [played by Bella Thorne and Jake Manley, pictured above].
Writer-director Joshua Caldwell borrows freely and indiscriminately
from several earlier and superior examples of its sub-genre — particularly Gun Crazy, Bonnie and Clyde and Natural
Born Killers — while attempting to craft some kind of cautionary tale about
the many and varied ways social media can turn the dangerously discontented
into sociopathic celebrity-seekers. But as he indefatigably underscores the
obvious while steadily escalating the violence, he does little to sustain the
attention of his audience while taking an unconscionably long time to arrive at
a thoroughly predictable conclusion.” You can read the rest of my
Variety review here.
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