Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Infini'

Written by Scott Edwards

Whenever you stop and think about human nature, you mainly think about the negatives. Since we are the only species on the planet that causes war, it is easy to fall under the impression that the human race is focused on pain and self destruction. But there is much more to us with all of the friendships that we build over little more than a simple like of something and relationships that do not revolve around who will be our best provider. It is so much easier to focus on the bad things that we can do, or have done, but we are a just another species on this planet just trying to survive like every other living thing on the third rock from the sun.

Whit Carmichael is starting his new position on the West Coast's Search and Rescue team. With the solar system and many other systems being colonized by the human race, every mission is off world and usually goes off without a hitch. But when the first team that has been sent to the Infini planet comes back full of rage and they try to kill everyone on the station, Whit is able to jump from one threat to another and disappears toward Infini before the West Coast office is lethally quarantined and the East Coast station is called into action. Being the best of the best of the search and rescue teams around, they are ready for action, but this mission is not only to save the survivors on the far away planet, it is to also save the earth from its impending doom.

Getting a little bit of back story about what happened on the planet, the SAR team finds out that the old commander of the outpost had gone mad and lost most of his men before being able to deliver the planet's resources to earth. But this is a good thing since it is has been discovered that the payload from the planet is too dangerous to return to the earth’s atmosphere and could cause the planet's destruction. With their orders in the can, the East Coast SAR team jumps to Infini to find Whit and bring him home, while taking the payload offline before it ships back to earth.  While the jump will only feel like a minute of earth time, they will be off world for twenty four hours to accomplish their mission.

Arriving inside the outpost, the temperatures are subzero and the SAR team will have to find a way from freezing to death while trying to locate Whit.  Locating the lost West Coast SAR member, the team finds out that everything that was done to the outpost was done by him, but for good reason. An infection had over taken the outpost causing everyone to go mad and try to kill each other for no reason. As Whit works on getting the outpost working again, the crew is attacked by a mad man that should have been dead from the cold. Disposing of the problem with a gunshot to the head, the team finds themselves infected from the blood spray that overtakes the control room. Even when Whit gets hit with some of the blood, he finds that he can control whatever is taking over his rescuers and has to find a way to stop the spread so he can go home to his pregnant wife. With minimal help from the surviving SAR members, Whit finds out that there is a secret hidden in the ice that could answer all of their questions about what is happening to the infected and must look inside of himself to try to contain it before everyone on the planet succumbs to their imminent deaths.

This is an interesting movie that deals with more than just an infection that is taking over people’s bodies, the virus is also playing with the emotions that are the easiest to find in humans. Anger and Fear can be the easiest way to describe the human race if you want to summarize it in a couple words and that is what the infected show right away. Then they turn to violence to become the alpha, trying to decide who will be the most dominate person that will be protected by the parasite. I really liked watching how each of SAR team acted when they got infected, with two of them worrying more about their lives back home, rather than the here and now. It makes you think about what emotions you are willing to jump to when things go wrong, rather than trying to figure out an answer for it before things start to get out of hand. This is one of those movies you actually have to pay attention to since there are a couple scenes that are referenced early that have relevance as to how the story will end. Happy Viewing.

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