Infinite (2021) – Movie Review

Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is a diagnosed schizophrenic who knows how to do things without learning them and has dreams and hallucinations that seem to belong to other people. He then discovers that he is an Infinite and that these memories are from his past lives and that each time he dies, he is reincarnated into a new body. And only he has the knowledge to stop Bathurst (Chiwetel Ejiofor), another Infinite with sinister plans.

Infinite was actually pretty good, especially for a free streamable movie. It had over-the-top action like The Fast and the Furious, but with some semblance of an actual story. It was kind of similar to The Old Guard, but instead of just being immortal, they reincarnated. And instead of a battle axe, Mark Walberg had a custom built katana that he forged himself.

The movie still suffered a little from lack of explanation and “just go with it” storytelling, but for the most part, did a good job with the world and story idea. Even though it’s not a completely original idea, I still love the concept. Something I wished about the movie was that we got to see more from Evan’s past lives. We saw a bit at the beginning of the film, with Dylan O’Brien racing through the streets of Mexico in a retro Ferrari, but then we never got to see the cool fight scene on the crane it was leading up to. Let me rephrase, we never saw it completely; only flashes of it, along with some flashes of his other past lives. I was hoping that once he remembered, we would’ve seen the fight scene in its entirety. Or they could have just shown it at the beginning of the film like they did with the rest of that memory. That just felt like a missed opportunity to me.

And while we’re making wishes, I wish they would’ve skipped out some of the unnecessary action scenes and devoted that to the story. As cool as it was to see an armored car barrel through a police station, I think that budget could’ve been put to better use elsewhere. It was an interesting idea that just needed a little more time to flesh out, and I think that would’ve helped this movie in the long run.

Overall, I liked Infinite. I thought it was a cool idea and had good action, and so I’d rate it 3.5 out of 5 stars. It reminded me a lot of The Old Guard, so if you enjoyed that, you’d probably enjoy this too. Except you get an hour and 46 minutes of Mark Walberg’s beautiful face instead of Charlize Theron’s. It looks like this movie is getting slammed by the critics but I still enjoyed it for what it was and am glad I saw it.

Infinite is available only on Paramount+. If interested, I recommend signing up for a free trial not only to see this movie, but everything else available on the new platform.