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The Colony

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Forced to live underground, survivors of an ice age embark on a mission to reach another outpost.
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A formulaic sci-fi thriller, The Colony features cliched dialogue, cheesy special effects, and underdeveloped characters.

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Dennis Harvey Variety A zombie by any other name is still a zombie in this utterly routine horror pic. Sep 23, 2013 Full Review Godfrey Cheshire RogerEbert.com The filmmakers' aversion to any hint of storytelling originality means that the main impression "The Colony" leaves is one of almost stupefying over-familiarity. Rated: 1.5/4 Sep 20, 2013 Full Review Kyle Smith New York Post A screaming, lunging, chomping chase movie that has nothing new to bring to a genre that just won't die. Rated: 1.5/5 Sep 20, 2013 Full Review JD Duran InSession Film The Colony starts off strong but ultimately falls flat due to bad visuals, lower-than-average acting outside Fishburne and Paxton and the story isn’t new and doesn’t add excitement for me to care. Rated: C+ Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Alix Turner Ready Steady Cut A post-apocalyptic survival thriller which looks great, but isn't as exciting as it should have been. Rated: 2/5 Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com While it certainly never transcends its B movie trappings, a valiant attempt by its two lead performers helps distract from some of the larger faults and obvious use of distracting CGI. Aug 28, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Davide C Please don't waste your time. Really. Only way to explain is via SPOILER: In a completely frozen world with permanent snowing weather, a colony, living in a sort of fortress, receives a distress signal from another colony, 3 people leave to investigate. They travel through frozen lands, totally unequipped for the extreme cold. They spend the night inside a helicopter, no fire, no breath mist. They arrive to the colony and, of course, they find a guy that is so confused that he can: - recharge a computer; - show a video of a guy who fixed a weather tower to get the weather warm again and asking for seeds to plant; - say they sent a team to find the guy; - say that some random people followed back; BUT he cannot say the fricking word "CANNIBALS"!!! So the 3 people go looking for the random people, of course, find them butchering people of the colony and start a little a show where cannibals look at them hissing, almost unarmed, and got easily shot because they are nothing more than simpletons. BUT of course, somehow, cannibals can put some heavy difficulty on the 3 people armed with guns and rifles… One of the 3 survives and manages to escape and go back to his colony, after a night spent in the extreme cold and snow, while the 20 cannibal simpletons, some of them almost naked, easily follow his traces (that snow didn't covered) and arrive to the colony. Inside the colony there's an idiot who performed a coup d'etat and doesn't believe the only survivor (who cannot say the fricking word "CANNIBALS"!!!), so the 20 cannibal simpletons, of course, are able to destroy reinforced steel doors only with pipes and blades and go inside bringing havoc amongst people heavily armed. A lot of people die uselessly, the boss of the cannibals doesn't die after being hit 30 times on the head with an iron weapon but, in the end, he got beheaded. Survivors decide to travel to the warm area. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/31/24 Full Review Ari B Original and underrated. I wish there was a sequel. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review Gabrielle H Way better than the latest, sci-fi movie-series that have been released lately. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/24 Full Review Emilliano Jr S Good cast, bad movie. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/20/23 Full Review Marcela T Péssimo! Previsível! Fraco! Raso! Sem apego pelos personagens, sem um bom roteiro, diálogos ruins e sem empatia! Vilões que não dão medo! Maquiagem ruim! Não tem neve nas roupas, não passa a sensação de urgência ou medo de perder alguém! Um clichê mal feito! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/30/23 Full Review Devan Z Lazy writing. Someone asks "Do ya think that still works?" referring do a giant piece of equipment that has been frozen for decades and plenty have people have walked by. Then someone asks "what is that?" umm. it's obviously a dead frozen body. not much else it could be. lazy writing. How do we make sure the good guy can't help?: cuff him to a medical bed. Never seen that before. why does guy just decide to run off in the complete opposite direction from where is mates are, who have guns? not sure. Lawrence Fishburne is the only saving grace. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Forced to live underground, survivors of an ice age embark on a mission to reach another outpost.
Director
Jeff Renfroe
Producer
Paul Barkin, Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Matthew Cervi
Screenwriter
Jeff Renfroe, Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier
Production Co
Alcina
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 6, 2016
Runtime
1h 33m
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