Name: Infini (2015)
IMDb: Infini main page
Genres: Horror presented as science fiction.
Cast: Daniel MacPherson as Whit Carmichael, Luke Ford as Chester Huntington, Grace Huang as Claire Grenich, Luke Hemsworth as Charlie Kent, Bren Foster as Morgan Jacklar, Harry Pavlidis as Harris Menzies, Dwaine Stevenson as Rex Mannings, Louisa Mignone as Philipa Boxen, Tess Haubrich as Lisa Carmichael, Kevin Copeland as Seet Johanson.
Written and Directed by: Shane Abbess.
The Three Acts:
The initial tableau: The film is set in the 23rd century, in some branch of our current timeline. The greatest source of wealth is mining in interstellar space. Travel is done by slipstreaming; that is, one encodes people as information, then sends the information via FTL transmission; at the destination, the information is decoded into people. Some of the mining sites 'enjoy' high gravity and very noticeable time dilation relative to Earth. One such site is struck by disaster.
An unexpected number of cascading failures forces a search and rescue team to search for any survivors, as well as a way to stop a scheduled payload from colliding with Earth.
Delineation of conflicts: Much of Earth's interstellar travel infrastructure has been destroyed. Earth itself needs to be saved from a scheduled collision of terminal strength. One of the unexpected failures that prompted the mission was a breakout of fast acting deadly plague. How many of the team will survive, given that those infected all turn violent and do their best to kill anyone else? Will anyone figure out the plague, if that is indeed what it is?
Resolution: Well, watch the film. This one has a fairly rousing conclusion.
One line summary: Horror presented as science fiction.
Statistics:
a. Cinematography: 6/10 This is a mixed bag. Much of the film is dark or sad-looking with a strongly depleted palette. Other parts have sufficient light, good framing, nice focus, and reasonable set design. Here and there shaky cam showed its ugly head.
b. Sound: 8/10 The dialog is clear, and the background music is fine for the situations.
c. Acting: 7/10 Harry Pavlidis, Luke Ford, and Daniel MacPherson were rather good. Most of the other actors were not on camera that much.
d. Screenplay: 5/10 The central cliches are present; that is, of horror that is presented as science fiction.
Final rating: 6/10
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