Antoine Fuqua's Infinite (2021) starts from a premise that sounds like a diagnosis and turns out to be a history: the visions tormenting a young man are not hallucinations but memories of lives he has already lived.
What is Infinite about?
For years a troubled young man has been told that the images crowding his head are symptoms of illness. They feel like something else, though: skills he never learned, places he has never visited, and two distinct lives that ended before his own began. His search for an explanation leads him to a hidden society whose members share the same condition, and who have been reincarnating across the centuries while carrying their knowledge forward from one life to the next. Joining them means accepting that everything he remembers is real, and that the people who want those memories buried are just as old and just as determined as the ones offering to help. The film combines chases, set-piece action and a running argument about whether living forever is a gift or a sentence.
About the cast
Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor top the cast, with Dylan O'Brien, Rupert Friend, Sophie Cookson, Toby Jones, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson and Jason Mantzoukas rounding out the ensemble. The mix of action leads and character actors reflects the film's two registers: large-scale physical sequences on one side, and quieter scenes in which the society's members explain the rules of their existence on the other.
Context & significance
Infinite is a United States production from 2021, catalogued under action, sci-fi and thriller, with a runtime of 106 minutes. Antoine Fuqua, whose filmography leans heavily toward action and crime, directs. The reincarnation conceit places the film in a long line of science-fiction stories about memory and identity, but the treatment here is closer to a chase thriller than a philosophical puzzle: the past lives function as an inventory of abilities the hero can draw on once he learns to trust them. The secret-society structure, with its factions and centuries-old grudges, supplies the antagonists and the stakes, and the 106-minute length keeps the exposition brisk.
Watching Infinite on Ktime
On K-Time, Infinite is available with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, so the action can be followed in Farsi or in the original English. You can read this page without an account, but streaming the film requires a K-Time login. The platform serves the Persian-speaking diaspora with a Farsi interface throughout, including search, browsing and the video player.