Synopsis
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
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Cast
- Kevin ZegersSam
- Laurence FishburneBriggs
- Bill PaxtonMason
- Charlotte SullivanKai
- John TenchViktor
- Atticus MitchellGraydon
- Dru ViergeverFeral Leader
- Romano OrzariReynolds
- Earl PastkoScientist
- Lisa BerryNara
Recommendations
- 50
Village Voice
The Colony has modest rewards: It's decently acted, delivers some well-executed jolts, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and is mercifully free of ironic distance. - 40
The New York Times
The Colony is two-thirds of a pretty good sci-fi suspense movie. But it eventually takes a disappointing turn and becomes yet another run-from-the-ghouls exercise, cheapening decent work by a good cast. - 40
Variety
Utterly routine futuristic horror-thriller The Colony substitutes the term “ferals” for plain old zombies (the modern, fast-moving kind), and that’s about it for originality. - 40
Empire
Notwithstanding the efforts of a game cast, this is a grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history by turning it into a piece of white-knuckle entertainment. - 38
RogerEbert.com
The problem is that the filmmakers' aversion to any hint of storytelling originality means that the main impression The Colony leaves is one of almost stupefying over-familiarity. - 38
New York Post
Can’t somebody come up with a monster that does something more interesting than run at you screaming, “Yeeaaaarrrrgh”? - 25
Philadelphia Inquirer
There are a few nice scares in The Colony, and the female lead, Rookie Blue's Charlotte Sullivan, looks really, really cute in blond dreadlocks. But she can't save the movie, nor can her impressive costars, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, and Laurence Fishburne. - 20
Los Angeles Times
The film strands its archetypal characters in a featureless danger zone and gives them overly familiar dialogue borrowed from a dozen other B-movies.
