Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) has lived his life believing that he is schizophrenic and has to control the visions he has through medication. In fact he is an ‘Infinite’, a small group of humans who can remember all of their past lives and the skills that they developed within them. 

It will be established that their are two factions within the ‘Infinites’. The ‘Believers’ who embrace their gift and use it to try to better the world around them and the ‘Nihilists’ who are so tired of their souls never coming to rest that they are looking to find a way to destroy all of mankind in a finite way that will prevent reincarnation. 

McCauley of course is an incredibly important member of the former group who is just struggling to fully connect with his past selves thanks to the medication he has been taking his whole life. But when he forges a Japanese samurai sword from memory and has a run in with the police he comes to the attention of Bathurst (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who is the leader of the nihilists. 

What follows is a race against time to unlock McCauley’s memories and prevent the end of the world. 

Infinite has an interesting, if slightly crazy premise. It feels a little like Highlander meets Assassins Creed. People who live across multiple generations and fondly remember the renaissance who have ridiculous futuristic tech and have been fighting each other across hundreds of years in the shadows. Unfortunately it never really comes together as an enjoyable science fiction film, action movie or comedy (Jason Mantzoukas is introduced later for comic effect). 

The film opens and finishes with an insulting voiceover that assumes anyone watching is unable to parse basic plot points without having them spelt out. Wahlberg seems to be a charisma vacuum unable to generate an interesting or empathetic character. Ejiofor on the other hand chews scenery as the dapper, well spoken villain that he played so well in 2005’s Serenity. Whilst the action never really seems to get going until the very final showdown, which frankly is so insane that I honestly think it might be worth watching the opening dross just to see how crazy a disregard for physics in a movie can be. 

Director Antoine Fuqua is normally a safe pair of hands as an action director but this is a big miss.