Review: Antoine Fuqua’s sci-fi thriller 'Infinite,' starring Mark Wahlberg, features a battle for humanity’s future among people who can remember their past lives
Such is the action-thriller “Infinite,” which has makeshift mythology to spare, and explanations of it: Walking among us, we are told, are people with perfect memories of all their past lives. They call themselves “Infinites,” two varieties of which have “vied for power.” There are the “Believers,” who are devoted to protecting mankind and seeing it prosper; and there are the “Nihilists,” who are intent on destroying the world.
Why are the Believers so intent on awakening Evan to his destiny? Why are the Nihilists so intent on destruction? The latter is the one intriguing idea in the film, articulated by an exasperated Nihilist bigwig named Bathurst as he tortures a high-ranking Believer played by Toby Jones for information about the stolen Egg—the device by which Bathurst plans to destroy all earthly life.“You know what real torture is?” Bathurst sputters. “Human stupidity.
The screenplay is by Ian Shorr, adapted from “The Reincarnationist Papers” by D. Eric Maikranz, and it isn’t without sympathy for Bathurst: He’s bored. His plight is—or would be—the paradox of immortality: endless time and none of it matters. Another paradox is how the small screen magnifies the flaws in a movie originally intended for theatrical release.
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