10 Action Movie Scenes So Unbelievable They're Actually Awesome
2. Infinite - Motorcycle jumps off cliff onto flying plane
In the recent Infinite, Heinrich Treadway (played by Mark Wahlberg) has to stop Bathurst who has possession of the egg that will end all life on Earth (You read that right). He gives chase on a motorcycle but we see the plane take off. Yet he drives straight for a steep cliff and jumps landing exactly on the cargo plane that was flying right below. Even professor Emmett Brown wouldn’t be able to calculate the timing for that.
Yet it is such an out of nowhere moment that it springs us back to life. While the lead characters do have some special abilities owing to their centuries of being reincarnated, nothing in the film has prepared us for this. By placing the over the top moment when we were least expecting it and just unleashing it at us before we can process what is happening, the film is able to stun us for long enough to just accept what we are seeing on screen.
There are multiple questions and jokes that spring to mind when the credits roll, but for a brief shining moment it what it was able to make us ask was how awesome was that!