Infinite (2021)

Plot of Infinite: Evan McCauley is a young man suffering from what seem to be hallucinations which he controls with drugs, but he uses an embedded skill to make Japanese sword for a villain in exchange for tablets. There is a shootout, and during his escape Evan is captured by the police, to be interviewed by a black detective who claims to know him.  As the interview goes badly an armoured Aston Martin is driven through the police station wall by a young woman who rescues Evan, and they escape. It is explained to him that he is an Infinite, called Treadway and is taken to a distant Infinite hideaway. He is told that he is one of a group protecting humanity and there is another group led by Bathurst, who wish to exterminate everybody. To carry out the extermination there is apparently ‘an egg’, but where is it?

Content:  No sex or nudity, and Evan requires a constant supply of tablets to keep what seem to him to be hallucinations in check. We see a car chase involving a Ferrari and an Aston Martin and people die. Evan fashions a Japanese sword which he hands over to a tattooed villain. Once in the Infinite’s secret camp he goes through some sort of boot camp becoming Treadway, some sort of mythical character. We are told how the Infinite business works, up to a point, since really it does not make much sense. There are more car chases, gunfire and explosions, and a fight on a cargo aircraft. Later we see a couple of babies being born, who it seems will be the new carriers of the consciousness of two of the Infinites.

A View: This outing was panned by the critics and achieved nominations in several of the Razzie categories, including worst film. What sense is there, we might ask, in the requirement that a group of infinite people want to terminate humanity. This would also terminate them. Also the transferring of consciousness from one person to another is not really presented. It is glossed over because no-one has actually worked out how it could be achieved, or actually why Evan does not know he is an Infinite. But I liked the cars. So if you are choosing to watch an action film, maybe go for Inception.

Fun Fact: The original book was self published by the author, and contained a statement that anyone who could bring it to the attention of Hollywood would be rewarded. A junior executive in the film business found a copy in a Nepalese hostel, and did the job.