Infini (2015)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

ridiculous rating

Charming and brutal

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Not sure why it has a 5.4. It was definitely entertaining and interesting throughout. The acting was above par and intense. All stories have been told before and this one is no exception. The way it is told is unique and it has a twist ending which you do not see coming. For a $5 Million budget you get a $50 million dollar movie. Not sure if this had wide or even limited release, but it deserves it. Director Shane Abbess is an exceptional talent and I hope more people watch it (on Netflix). This story has been told many times before but largely without the talent present here. I rate it in the top 10% of the best SciFi movies. Enjoy!

Typical bad reviews for this movie read like a 3rd grade book report: I didn't like this because I've seen better zombies... I didn't pay any attention to the rest of the movie.Here is how the adults do it. Biggest problem with this movie is because it was familiar. I get the Event Horizon angle. I also get a similar feeling from Doom. Alien? Maybe. Take away all of the inanimate objects from Alien or Aliens and there are only some rare similarities left. No terror. No Bishop. No power-loader. Hell yes to battling demons.This is not a shocking and gory horror film in which you hope your favorite survives to the end. Instead, it's a trippy sci-fi thriller which has two goals to interest viewers. First, figure out what's dangerous to the characters. Second, have an acid flashback. This genera is difficult to follow for the young and the sober, which explains most of the negative reviews. That also explains most of the 10+ reviews.There are many major flaws in this film which would normally jail it in B movie territory, for sure. But, unlike many other B movies, trash talking it and gem spotting are so easy.There's almost no background given on most characters. You might miss some if you don't have subtitles turned on. On the flip, you can watch it with friends and take a drink when a character dies because nobody cares.Here are the numbers:Acting: 9/10 One of the best gems is how the actors crush their performances.Dialogue: 8/10 Troopers out of their minds, trying to express something, makes some strange poetry. Whit and his wife are perfect.Music: 2/10 Only way to get a worse rating is if there was no music...Premise: 4/10 Why are there so many pseudo-important people who then take up a lot of time by saying unimportant things only to disappear for half, if not all of the movie?Story Development: 9/10 Happy ending?Comedy: 4/10 Many respectable attempts. I laughed once.Sets: 7/10 Wait, didn't he just run and duck past that same steam vent before? I guess that happens because every room in sci-fi has to be small. Detail was good and functional.Effects: 6/10 Talcum and dried blood are the only makeups. Functional for visual and sound.Cinematography: 8/10 Camera operator should get a raise.Editing: 7/10 Why is a dirty jump called a dirty jump? I get the feeling that half of the movie was cut out to shrink it down to only two hours.Grade: 64/100 Rounds down to a 6/10. If you are a fan of sci-fi, then don't miss this one.

Before you watch "Infini" you need to seriously consider if it's a film you could handle...or would want to handle. After all, it's incredibly bloody and violent--so much so that it's bound to turn off some viewers. Sure,...it's sci-fi...but very violent and difficult to watch sci-fi. And I am talking about a film that is significantly more violent than "Alien" or "The Thing".When the film begins, there's a prologue that explains about the future and space travel through something called 'slipstreaming'. Soon a slipstreaming experiment goes amok and all but one of the slipstream soldiers on a base are killed when a group of slipstream travelers return--violent and changed into killing machines. The lone survivor, Whit, travels to the most distant and awful base set up by the humans, Infini.Soon an extraction group is sent to Infini. They are looking for survivors because apparently some sort of disaster occurred there. However, the disaster is nothing like the slipstream soldiers were told, as some weird alien creature that looks like goo takes over many in the team and they run amok killing each other. And, somehow, Whit is among the survivors...one of the few left alive after the infestation. Much of the film shows him battling crazed humans who are infested and it's killing---very, very violent, visceral and nasty killing for here on in the film.There are some very positive things about the movie. Although it cost only $800,000, it looked like the film cost many millions. It has nice special effects and music as well. But the film is a bit confusing (especially at the beginning) and just too bloody and violent for my taste. An interesting film but one that left me feeling a bit disappointed due to the unrelenting violence.By the way, it is interesting that although the film was made in Australia, all the folks sport American-style accents...even though a good deal of the actors are Aussies. Perhaps this was done to increase the ability of the filmmakers to market the picture abroad.

Where most of the sci-fi movies like this are really just scary action movies in a sci-fi setting, this unassuming title surprised me a lot in a good way by being deeper than that.Without spoiling anything, the setup is pretty typical at first glance, where a team of people are sent on a rescue mission to the most remote mining outpost, where something as gone terribly wrong due to circumstances unknown, possibly a contaminant of some sort. Upon arrival, however, and after events unfold, what I found was that the movie explores the effects of what happens on said team, the effects on their minds and psyches, much better than I usually see. Additionally, the background setting in the 23rd century is well established, even if the movie provides only the basics of it in order to leave most of the screen time to the main action, which is fine. Furthermore, the environments and props, etc, I found very well done, as were the visual effects.I thought the ending left some questions to be thought about, which I feel is a good in sci-fi too. So, all in all, I found it very enjoyable and quite better than the average sci-fi movie.