Mark Wahlberg's 106-Minute Reincarnation Sci-Fi Thriller Finds Streaming Salvation

Published Sep 18, 2026, 12:46 PM EDT

Dan Zinski is a freelance scribe currently contributing to ScreenRant as a movie and TV news writer. He previously wrote for FanSided, The Viking Age and Lightly Buzzed.

Mark Wahlberg and sci-fi have a very complicated relationship. It’s true that three of the star’s biggest box office hits belong to the science fiction genre, with Transformers: Age of Extinction topping the list as Wahlberg’s only movie to surpass $1 billion worldwide. Unfortunately, two of those three blockbuster movies are also among the star’s lowest-rated on Rotten Tomatoes, along with a handful of other critical sci-fi bombs.

Wahlberg’s #2 box office performer is Transformers: The Last Knight, which grossed $605 million, despite carrying a 16% fresh rating on RT. His #4 BO movie Planet of the Apes is not quite as maligned, sitting at a middling 42%, a number that still ranks it high above the non-hit Wahlberg-led sci-fi stinkers The Happening (17%) and Infinite (17%), the latter of which became a COVID casualty when it was released in 2021.

Mark Wahlberg's Infinite Is Redeeming Itself Again On Streaming

It’s Currently Streaming On Tubi

It’s been five years since the chaos of COVID, and Wahlberg’s mostly forgotten sci-fi effort from that period is enjoying a run of streaming redemption, rising all the way to #1 on Tubi’s top US movies as of September 18, 2026.

The Tubi machine is great as always at dredging up random titles like Infinite, whose company in the streamer’s top 10 includes the grab-bag of 2010’s Legion, Scorsese’s Casino, Fraser’s The Mummy, and the 1951 version of Scrooge, among others. But the endless free streaming churn means the service’s users only have a limited time to catch its current #1 title, as Infinite is set to leave on October 1.

The Sci-Fi Film Had A Very Rocky Journey

It Ended Up Not Being Released Theatrically

Infinite’s long journey to the screen began when Paramount bought Ian Shorr and Tod Stein’s Black List script based on a self-published novel by D. Eric Maikranz, hiring Antoine Fuque to direct, and Chris Evans to star. But Evans later dropped out, clearing the way for Wahlberg to play the story’s protagonist, a person with schizophrenia who discovers he’s not only lived many past lives, but is able to draw upon the knowledge accumulated across his various incarnations, giving him Neo-like superpowers.

Wahlberg’s Matrix meets Wanted sci-fi thriller should have hit screens in August 2020, but COVID happened, and the film was delayed to May 2021, only to be chased off its new release date by A Quiet Place Part II. Paramount then elected to cancel the movie’s theatrical release altogether, sending Infinite to Paramount+, where it debuted to little fanfare on June 10, 2021.

"An initially intriguing sci-fi thriller that quickly veers into incoherence, Infinite is as inane as it is inconsequential,” reads Rotten Tomatoes’ harsh summary of critical consensus on the ill-fated movie. It went on to get three Golden Raspberry nominations, including one for Wahlberg for Worst Actor, but even came up empty on Razzy night.