dark sci-fi

If you’re a fan of dark sci-fi movies, you might think about giving “Infini” a try. It’s currently streaming on Netflix and it was actually really good.

I don’t want to say too much and ruin the movie, but it begins with a quick intro to the world–people are poor, one of the ways to make money is to sign on to the military where they implant an Apex device into the back of your neck, and you get digitized and sent to other worlds through the Slipstream–that’s brief but gives you all the info you need to enjoy the story.

Whit Carmicheal is readying himself for his first trip through the Slipstream when a catastrophe occurs in the complex. He and another soldier dirty jump to whatever hell the last group has just returned from–screaming and clawing at their skin. It’s the only thing they can do as the complex goes into lockdown and the alternative is to be lethally sanitized.

Cut to the East Coast complex where a squad is being prepped to go to Infini, a mining station at the farthest reach of the Slipstream system. There’s been some form of accident and all the miners are dead. But one of them had time to prep a lethal payload for delivery to Earth. Oh, and it turns out that before the West Coast complex self-destructed, some soldiers managed to Slipstream to Infini and at least one of them might still be alive, though it’s hard to tell with the effects of time-dilation.

Their mission is to stop the payload delivery and rescue Whit Carmicheal.

And from there the movie really starts.