The plot is pretty straight forward. James Spader stars as Julian Rome, a cryptologist who is invited to solve a mystery about signals from outer space that first started in 1947.
At the South Pole, Julian finds a secret base run by the military and inside of this base they have a weird shell-like contraption that is beaming the signal. But nobody has been able to sole what that signal means.
While the soldiers try to open the object, Rome finally manages to discover that the message is a dire warning from space not to open the capsule. Too late, it gets opened minutes before Rome can warn anyone.
An alien life form escapes and then proceeds to infect the entire crew with a strange malady that slowly kills them and everything else they get close to.
They report their findings to government officials, and these men decide that everyone left alive at the base has to be killed because they will infect and destroy all life on Earth.
The film has a rather interesting ending even though it is a bit of a downer. This movie is by no means original, but it is fun to watch and moves along at a good pace. If you watch close you can see stock footage from John Carpenter's "The Thing" from 1982.
The cast also includes Carl Lewis, Janine Eser, John Lynch and Leslie Stefanson. This filmed in Bulgaria effort does not fail to entertain those looking for simple entertainment.
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