Film Review – Infinite Storm

Naomi Watts has always gravitated toward roles that require sometimes extreme physicality. She worked through the devastation of a tsunami in “The Impossible,” spent nearly an entire movie in motion in “The Desperate Hour,” and devoted plenty of time to thrillers that demanded a full-body response to oncoming dangers. She’s back in full pain mode with “Infinite Storm,” which is based on an article (“High Places: Footprints in the Snow Lead to an Emotional Rescue” by Ty Gagne) exploring an especially arduous situation of survival and partnership high atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Director Malgorzata Szumowska has harsh conditions and deep psychological scars to explore for over 90 minutes, and she prefers to slow the feature down to best examine the steps of self-preservation. “Infinite Storm” gets periodically lost in its own real-time approach, but there’s something buried in Joshua Rollins’s screenplay worth waiting for, as a story of endurance gradually becomes one about loss, packing quite an emotional punch when the film needs it the most. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com