Infinite Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

4. The Script Is Absolute Nonsense

There's no getting around it - even in its most coherent moments, Infinite is a seat-of-its-pants feat of storytelling, unaided by a script that's just totally all over the place.

From ill-placed cringe humour to the generic plot outline - shocker, Chiwetel Ejiofor's villain needs to collect a special trinket which will allow him to end the world - and reams of exposition, Ian Shorr's screenplay is painfully unadventurous and only occasionally logical.

More disappointingly, there's little character to the dialogue at all, as though most of it were created by a studio algorithm for maximum accessibility above all else.

The film will make sure you never lose track of what's going on with its unnecessary vocalisations of The Story So Far, to the point that the central narrative reveal is thus rendered extremely predictable.

But despite the compelling narrative seed at its core, this feels like a hurried first draft script which needed many, many more passes before going into production.