I sometimes spend ages trying to decide what movie to watch. I look at movie description after movie description, skip from genre to genre, simply trying to find something that I feel like watching.
Of course, sometimes I will simply click on the first movie I find, and watch that one. That was today's case. So, let me introduce today's movie, and then we can get into my review!
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves "Infinites" come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are real.
My Review!
Background checks are making it impossible for Evan McCauley to get a job. He has violent behaviour in his past, something he might be able to explain, but that employers cannot risk. On top of that, he is suffering from schizophrenia, and his only way of controlling it is medication he gets as part of deals. When he forges a katana, the whole deal goes badly, and he ends up arrested, only to be broken out by someone after an interrogation that could not possibly have been carried out by someone working for the law.
Evan finds himself among a group called the Infinites, people who are reincarnated when they die, and whom all remember their past lives. But, Evan’s life thus far has caused some kind of block in his memory, stopping him from remembering anything from his past lives. All he gets are glimpses, visions that were the cause of his schizophrenia diagnosis in the first place. The Infinates are desperate, though. They have an enemy, the Nihilists, who, although they are also Infinites, do not believe they come back to life for a reason, and who simply want it all to be over. Their solution? If you destroy everything, there is nothing to return to. Their ‘bomb’, as it were, is something called the Egg, which Evan stole from them in his previous life. But, Evan hid the Egg before he died, and without any of his memories, no one knows where the Egg is.
Working to try and find the Egg before Bathurst, the leader of the Nihilists, can get to Evan becomes a mission, retraining every aspect of Evan’s body so that his mind may remember. This film has its fair share of action scenes, and the whole concept is certainly an intriguing one. The Infinites are not reborn as the same person each time, but rather as the same soul, bouncing between different people. They grow up in different countries, in different situations, in different families each time they come back, and it is only when they reach 14 years old that they remember who they are, and their past lives. While this was interesting, I couldn’t see any real reason for their coming back to life. Some believed they were blessed with this, that they had a purpose, and that each life would teach them something different, something that would be important in the future, but there didn’t seem to be anything they had to fix, or work to make better. Their goal, as it were, seemed unclear.
There are definitely some plot holes in this film. I will not list them, as they will give away major points of the plot, but the hiding place of the Egg, while at first not entirely obvious in the movie, would surely have been the only possible explanation, should the characters be real. Come to think of it, it was not even hidden all that well. One of the redeeming factors, though, was that the past life Evan was played by Dylan O’Brien, so whenever we get a glimpse back at that life, and slowly learn about the Egg and Evan’s role in finding and hiding it, we get to spend some time with Dylan O’Brien as well.
This isn’t the kind of film you will need to watch with entirely rapt attention. It is not difficult to keep up with, or one that is difficult to understand, and I do sometimes have trouble keeping up with action films. However, there are gaping holes in the plot, some that might have been closed up by a few additional sentences of dialogue, and some that seem impossible to close with the way the story went. If you are after a science-fiction film with some scenes of intense action and an interesting premise, definitely check this one out. Although, do not expect a story masterpiece. The visuals are good, but the story makes it a film you might put on in the background, rather than pay your full attention to.
And done!
I was a bit wary about writing this review, because I usually try to keep all my reviews positive, but there were some things I really couldn't help but mention, and I figured only posting wholly positive reviews doesn't give an entirely rounded sense of me as a reviewer. Not everything can be perfect.
That's all for now...
Bye!
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