Mark Wahlberg ventures into the Sci-Fi action genre with Infinite. He is Evan Michaels. Evan suffers from hallucinations but slowly begins to discover that these hallucinations are glimpses from his past. He must put the pieces together to figure out who he is and what he must do to save future life on the planet. A movie with fantastic visuals. Wahlberg amply delivers the macho quotient he is so well known for. Antoine Fuqua’s direction sizzles, like it almost always does. If you are looking for great Sci-Fi action movies like Infinite, we’ve got a list of 8 of them for you!
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8 Sci-Fi Action Thriller Movies like Infinite (2021)
1 Looper (2012)
IMDB 7.4 | 541K Ratings
The year is 2074. When the mafia wants to put out a hit on someone, the intended victim is thrust back in time. An assassin waits to take them out there. That assassin is Joe (Joseph Gordon – Levitt). But, when the mafia want to tie up loose ends, they want Joe himself gone. The loop has to be closed. How will Joe escape a his own assassination.
A brilliant movie that will bend and warp your mind in different timelines. Definitely very similar to Infinite in how it toys with the past, present and future. There’s plenty of exciting action as well.
2 Predestination (2014)
IMDB 7.5 | 259K Ratings
Ethan Hawke is a barkeep. But, that’s just his alias. His real job is a temporal agent. As a law enforcement officer, he must navigate through a series of time travel loops that take him through the past, present and future. His mission? To track down one criminal who has eluded him his entire professional life. His whole career depends on tracking down this criminal.
His journeys take him through love, identity crisis and fate, all while trying to manipulate the unforgiving rules that apply to time travel.
3 Deja Vu (2006)
IMDB 7.0 | 296K Ratings
Denzel Washington is Doug Carlin. He is an A.T.F. Agent. When a ferry is bombed, he is introduced to a special team that uses time travel technology. The time bending technology allows events that happened 4 days and 6 hours ago to be seen as if they are happening again. To complicate matters, the bomber already has his next target in mind. Doug has exactly 4 days and 6 hours to identify the bomber and stop him.
A very unique take on time travel, where there is no time travel but just the ability to look back into the past. Directed by Tony Scott, the movie also features Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel and Val Kilmer in prominent roles.
4 Minority Report (2002)
IMDB 7.6 | 516K Ratings
Directed by Steven Spielberg, this movie pretty much set the standard for action sci-fi thrillers when it came out in 2002. Tom Cruise is Chief John Anderton. He is part of a special team that is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crime.
But, when John himself is identified as someone who is going to kill in the future, he is on a race against time. He rests his hope on a Minority Report, a report generated by an algorithm that calculates predictions differently from the main algorithm their team uses. The movie also stars Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton in leading roles.
5 Source Code (2011)
IMDB 7.5 | 492K Ratings
Jake Gyllenhaal is Colter Stevens. He wakes up on a train, in a body that he doesn’t recognize as his own. His mission? To find and disarm a bomber who is going to blow up the train in exactly 8 minutes. If he fails, the mission starts again, in an endless loop.
He uses the aid of Christina (Michelle Monaghan), a fellow traveler, to try to unravel the mystery, using his ex-soldier experience. A fascinating watch that will have you working just as hard as Colter, trying to identify the bomber.
6 In Time (2011)
IMDB 6.7 | 377K Ratings
Set in the future, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is falsely accused of murder. Desperate in his bid to escape, he takes Rachel (Olivia Wilde) hostage. Their world is such that people stop aging at 25. But, there’s a catch. After 25, people have just a year to live. But, they can buy their way out. The rich therefore live for decades, without aging a day beyond 25.
But, Salas’s unique predicament presents a way for him to beat the system, along with the hostage with whom he is falling in love with. An intriguing watch!
7 Transcendence (2014)
IMDB 6.2 | 219 K Ratings
Johnny Depp is Professor Will Caster. He is at the forefront of technology that can take the collective intelligence of humankind and program it into a sentient algorithm that can save lives and change the history of humanity.
But, Caster has his enemies. There are people who don’t want technology to take over the world. In an attempt to sabotage the algorithm from ever going live, Professor Caster is shot. But, before he passes away, his wife wife Evelyn Caster (Rebecca Hall) uploads his consciousness into an algorithm. But, gone are Caster’s noble intentions. He instead takes a dark road to unleash the power of superhuman intelligence.
A great movie that also features other big name actors such as Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman and others.
8 12 Monkeys (1995)
IMDB 8.0 | 587K Ratings
The future world is ravaged by disease and death. As part of a scientific experiment to save humanity, a team sends an convict back into the past. His mission? To gather intelligence about the lab-made virus that is set to wipe out humanity. He is promised a significant reduction of his sentencing if he can pull it off.
But, when the convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) tries to explain his intentions in the past world, he is promptly locked up in a psychiatrics institution. There, he has to convince Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeline Stowe) about the importance of his mission. She believes him. But nobody else does. Another possible ally is Christopher Plummer (Brad Pitt), the son of a virologist who has been locked up for his crazy conspiracy theories. Together, they race a clock in the past, to save the future.
The props and effects will definitely remind you of the movies made in the 90’s. But, the plot is riveting and this sci-fi movie actually has the highest IMDB rating of all movies in this list of movies like Infinite! Bruce Willis puts in a very convincing acting performance and Brad Pitt is excellent as well.
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