10 Worst Movie Characters Of 2021 (So Far)
6. Evan McCauley - Infinite
Mark Wahlberg's new direct-to-streaming sci-fi action vehicle Infinite disappeared from the cultural conversation as fleeting as it entered it, and so you'd be forgiven for not even remembering his utter phantom of a protagonist, Evan McCauley.
On one hand the movie's got Chiwetel Ejiofor delivering a scenery-chewing villainous performance for the ages in an attempt to elevate this nonsense, while Wahlberg's McCauley is just...Mark Wahlberg doing his Mark Wahlberg thing.
Not even the actor's usual laid-back charms serve him well here, and he's perhaps never seemed more mentally checked-out and uncaring about a movie's material.
As such, audiences are unlikely to warm to the guy or find his quest to reconcile his past lives and prevent a global catastrophe much compelling at all.
When Wahlberg can't even perform the voiceover narration with a whisker of enthusiasm, it's easy to dismiss his character as a narcotised zombie.
Despite mildly intriguing hints of Evan's troubled past as a result of his ability to reincarnate, he mostly remains a bland cipher at film's end, a dollar store Neo you've probably already forgotten.