Harry's Movie Review

Infinite takes a genuinely intriguing setup and squanders most of it. Evan McCauley discovers his fragmented memories are real, that he's lived countless lives, and a group called the Infinites wants to recruit him. The premise grabs you. But the film spends too much energy on plot mechanics and not enough on what makes that premise matter to him as a person.

Chiwetel Ejiofor does the heavy lifting here, playing a villain with real conviction and depth that the script barely gives him. Wahlberg struggles with the existential weight of the material. He's competent in action sequences but can't sell the moment when Evan processes that everything he thought was madness is actually memory. Sophie Cookson gets stuck in the thankless mentor role, delivering exposition with professionalism that can't quite overcome how little she has to work with. Jason Mantzoukas provides occasional comic relief without derailing things.

Director Antoine Fuqua orchestrates the action beats cleanly, and the 106-minute runtime keeps things moving before fatigue sets in. The real problem isn't execution, it's ambition. The film commits to being a straightforward chase thriller when it could've explored something stranger and more unsettling about identity and reincarnation. Instead it settles for car chases and shootouts.

I walked out with a simple thought: nice entertainment. Not transcendent, not particularly memorable, but functional enough to fill two hours. The film respects your time by not dragging, which counts for something.