The synopsis makes the film sound interesting, unfortunately it's not, it's just a mish mash of car chases and action sequences, like a Bond film. If you like that sort of thing, fine but the synopsis describes the entire premise, it goes no deeper than that. Amusingly though that doesn't stop them explaining everything as they go, each scene felt like one of those introductions you get before a ride at Disneyland where they tell you what to expect.
Antoine Fuqua can normally be trusted to bring home a good film (Training Day, Olympus Has Fallen), but he can do little with this script about a group of people (Infinites) who keep getting reincarnated. Mark Wahlberg is the Infinite who doesn’t know he’s an Infinite so he can have screeds of exposition thrown at him for our benefit. Chiwetel Ejiofor with a bad beard is the baddie out to get him because he has The Egg (don’t ask). Naturally Wahlberg gets to ride a motor-bike fast at some point.
You could say it’s no more stupid than your bog-standard superhero film, but it’s even more bogged down in dull exposition than the recent reboots of Dune and The Matrix. The only thing that makes it better than them, and maybe worth a look, is Fuqua’s penchant for action set-pieces. The opening full-throttle car chase through the heart of Mexico City sets a high standard, but after that it’s all downhill.
Absolute drivel in cinematic form. A storyline so feeble and muddled it can't be used to hang the endless car and motorcycle chases and protracted shoot-em-up scenes on.
Life is way too short and time too precious to waste even the half hour we suffered it's nonsense for.
Who knows how the funding was ever raised to finance this. I'll bet they weren't impressed when the saw how their money had been wasted.
Avoid it. Cut your toenails. That'll be more interesting and entertaining.