Infinite Storm movie review & film summary (2022)


Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s movie is about Pam Bales (Watts), a New Hampshire woman who (as the title suggests) gets herself into a bit of a one-woman version of the predicament that vexed a boat full of men in “A Perfect Storm.” She goes hiking on a six-hour route over Mt. Washington even though weather forecasts predict a massive winter storm, thinking she’s skilled enough to get through the hike before things get really bad. She does, in fact, have the skills to get it done. But all bets are off when she happens across a hiker (Billy Howle), whom she dubs John, who is freezing to death and resolves to take him to the base of the mountain before nightfall, at which points things will get really hairy. 

As is so often the case in modern survival pictures, this movie seems not to believe that the spectacle of a woman doing incredible things against incredible odds is enough of a show. So we get biographical flashbacks that explain her and that (seemingly) try to “raise the stakes” or “widen out the story” and otherwise add sort of a metaphorical dimension to the challenge facing her on the mountain. These don’t destroy the movie, anymore than they did in “Contact” or “Gravity” or “Wild,” but one might still feel that, given the acting and filmmaking skills displayed throughout, there might be a stripped-down, almost primordial woman-vs-nature tale buried inside the one we’re watching, a film that’s outwardly more simplistic but actually more demanding. 

Nevertheless, this is a strikingly assured movie. An opening, nearly wordless sequence shows Pam waking up in the morning (same as in “The Desperate Hour,” oddly) and making coffee before facing a challenge that she doesn’t know will be harder than the one she prepared for, and then we follow the Aristotelian unities, more or less (flashbacks aside), until Pam gets John back down to where he needs to be. In between, there are crackerjack action scenes that make the most of the real locations as well as the actors’ tenacity and endurance. Many of the scenes are shot so that you realize the actors are doing the hard stuff, not a stunt double (although insurance concerns surely made it impossible for them to do everything). 

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