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Infected
The Hatching / They're Among Us
Canada 2008
produced by Francois Sylvestre, Robert Halmi jr (executive), Robert Halmi jr (executive), Michel Prupas (executive)
directed by Adam Weissman
starring Gil Bellows, Maxim Royl, Bruce Dinsmore, Judd Nelson, Jesse Todd, Mark Camacho, Carlo Mestroni, Isabella Rossellini, Neil Napier, Glenda Braganza, David Schaap, Donny Quinn
story by Thomas Schnauz, screenplay by [Joshua Hale Fialkov, Christian Ford, Roger Soffer, Mark Wheaton, special effects by Louis Craig, visual effects by Mario Rachiele
review by Mike Haberfelner
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While the Boston Plague is crippling the city, Taylor Lambert (Neil
Napier) investigates a big conspiracy that might be behind everything - a
conspiracy that has Peter Whitefield (Bruce Dinsmore), an industialist
propagating healthy living, and the mayor as its evil orchestrators. But
to prove his theories, Lambert has to shoot the mayor in broad daylight
and take his blood sample. Of course, Lambert is shot not too long
afterwards, but he has found just enough time to hand the blood sample
over to Ben (Gil Bellows) and Lisa (Maxim Roy), two journalists and
ex-lovers who are now forced to work together again to uncover the scandal
and save us all from the Boston Plague. After some shoot-outs and chases,
Lisa and Ben bump into bum Malcolm (Judd Nelson), who's actually an alien
and who tells them that Whitefiled is an alien as well and at the center of
a conspiracy that involves using humankind as a
breeding species for his own race - which is why everybody has to be
infected with the Boston Plague, which creates perfect breeding
conditions. Turns out that Ben is the only human who's immune to both
the plague and the alien insemination, which is why Malcolm wants to
create some common cold virus out of his DNA to make everyone else immune
as well. But before that can happen, everybody is captured by Whitefield
and his henchmen, and it seems the baddies have won ... when Ben somehow
manages to break free, inject his blood into the feeding mechanism of the
breeding apparatus which houses all the city's Boston Plague victims.
Ben's action makes all humans hanging on it instantly immune and
Whitefield's breeding plan a giant miscarriage. Then Ben kills Whitefield,
who has since turned into a reptile-like alien, by simply smearing
Whitefield's face with his blood, which is, as we now learn, poison to all
aliens. This achieved of course, the world is saved and Ben and Lisa
rekindle their relationship ... A pretty boring sci fi
thriller, a film with a pseudo-intelligent story that's actually full of
plotholes, boringly familiar alien-effects somewhere inbetween Alien
and David Cronenberg's Shivers,
and a bunch of mediocre actors who do little to actually carry the film.
What's worse though is that the film is totally devoid of any real
suspense or shocks, two things crucial to a movie like this, and
fourthermore director Adam Weissman doesn't even try to create anything
remotely resembling atmosphere. Pretty much a waste of time.
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