After work today I watched a mediocre Mark Wahlberg action flick called Infinite. It was released in 2021, and stars, as I said, Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor on opposite sides of a philosophical (and real) war between two factions of people who remember their past lives. As an action movie, it's just fine. Nothing special going on. Wahlberg is more hit than miss usually with his acting, and this one is definitely a miss; stiff, unemotional, with the worst voice-over read I think I've ever heard. Ejiofor is talented, but not quite enough to get around the not-great material he was given. The action is fine but un-innovative. What I think really makes it mediocre though, is the fact that it has this really interesting concept of opposing and unreconcilable philosophical ideas related to reincarnation, and the film doesn't seem to want to really engage with it. A lot of similar action movies are like that. Quick-ish breakdown, if you haven't seen it (and you probably haven't):…
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