Infinite is one of those movies where the hero suddenly gets rescued in a daring raid after an ally crashes a vehicle through the wall of wherever the hero is being held. One has to wonder: how did the person driving the vehicle know that their friend/colleague/lover/boss wasn’t directly on the other side of the wall and turned into paste when they smashed through it?
If reincarnation were real, and you were able to somehow hold on to your memories across lifetimes, you would experience an off-kilter version of immortality. Your body wouldn’t live forever, but your awareness would, accruing millennia of experiences while having to start over anew each time, seeing existence from a different perspective. Because it wouldn’t be easy to hold on to wealth, much less status, knowledge would be the main advantage. There would be endless opportunities to learn languages, crafts, and sports; to study science, philosophy, and art; to delve into hedonism and asceticism and consider the nature of humanity.
- Infinite (2021)
Normally we might let something like that go if the rest of the movie entertains or makes up for it, but Infinite doesn’t do either. In addition to that cliché rescue maneuver (which is followed by a destructive and pointless car chase through the inside of a police station), the film contains a string of laughably implausible and uninspired action sequences while borrowing freely and liberally from films like The Old Guard, TheMatrix, Nobody, Avengers: Infinity War, and any of the X-Men entries.
Scripted by Ian Shorr and based on a 2009 novel called The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz, Infinite is set in a vaguely futuristic version of now: there’s lots of high-tech gadgetry, a secret hideout called the Hub, and even a kooky mad genius named the Artisan (played by Jason Mantzoukas), who shows up for comic relief in the usual spot reserved for these types near the end of the second act. He fails at his mission, however, since this movie takes itself too damn seriously. There’s also something called the Egg, which should be renamed the Egg McGuffin, since it’s the device that Bathurst is determined to acquire so he can dust the human race like a certain purple Titan we know.
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Infinite begins by explaining its premise via voice-over in blunt, back-of-the-book terms: There are people who can remember everything from their past lives, who call themselves Infinites; some of them, the Believers, work toward the betterment of mankind, while others, the Nihilists, look to end existence as we know it. When a movie starts this way, it’s usually because test audiences or executives deemed its setup too confusing. Here, maybe a half-hour in, a character seems to confirm that by delivering, almost word for word, the same description of what’s going on. But what makes Infinite confounding isn’t the recalling of past lives but what it opts to do with that idea, which is to use it for an off-brand riff on superpowers. Wahlberg’s character, Evan Michaels, isn’t simply a guy who was born good at everything but just hasn’t figured it out yet; he’s the reincarnation of Heinrich Treadway (Dylan O’Brien), the Infinite who figured out how to unlock parts of his potential that allowed him to do things “that others might call paranormal, superhuman.”
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CAST of "INFINTE" movie Wallis Day as Agent Shin , Johannes Haukur Johannesson as Kovic ,Rupert Friend As Bathurst 1985, Toby Jones as Bryan Porter ,Tom Hughes as Abel Trask .SCREEN SHOT
