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The Colony

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35m
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5.3/10
49K
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Bill Paxton, Laurence Fishburne, and Kevin Zegers in The Colony (2013)
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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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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Jeff Renfroe
  • Writers
    • Jeff Renfroe
    • Svet Rouskov
    • Patrick Tarr
  • Stars
    • Kevin Zegers
    • Laurence Fishburne
    • Bill Paxton
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    49K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jeff Renfroe
    • Writers
      • Jeff Renfroe
      • Svet Rouskov
      • Patrick Tarr
    • Stars
      • Kevin Zegers
      • Laurence Fishburne
      • Bill Paxton
    • 224User reviews
    • 94Critic reviews
    • 28Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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      • Svet Rouskov
      • Patrick Tarr
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    6SimonK101

    Slightly underrated (but not much!)

    This movie is suffering from what I'd like to call the Game of Thrones effect; the way the ending defines a person's lasting opinion regardless of what came before. GOT was freakin' amazing, but to many people it is a festering pool of lameness, because the last series (or 2) was written by a spoon.

    The Colony is kinda the same. I can honestly say, for the entire first half of the movie I was thinking: this movie doesn't deserve a 5/10. It has a solid post-apocalyptic atmosphere, an interesting somewhat-innovative premise, decent acting, and an intriguing story with good tension building. The CGI was a bit weak in places, but I didn't care because I was adequately immersed. Reading the other reviews, I think most people felt the same. So 50% of this movie is a solid 7/10 ... for real post-apocalyptic fans maybe even an 8/10.

    The problem is, after the real enemy is revealed, the tension rapidly drops away and a simple bland survival story begins. There's nothing at all innovative from here on. The action is underwhelming and the enemy is also underwhelming (but they're clearly not zombies as one reviewer thought). Sure, there are multiple holes in terms of realism and believability, but they're the same flaws 100 other higher scoring action movies have made. Also the possibility of the interesting apocalypse-reversal was not explored. Basically, it was just generic not-too-terrible lameness. This part of the movie was a disappointing 5/10.

    So yes, as a result of the ending the overall experience is disappointing ... but honestly I think the first half was special enough to justify watching the movie, especially if you're a post-apoc fan. Sit down, forget the IMDB score, pretend it's a hidden gem, and enjoy the first 45 minutes. When you sense it's starting to get lame, which it unfortunately will, crack on with your doom scrolling or whatever you personally do when TV loses your attention.

    This might seem like odd advice but IMO, as a post-apoc fan, the beginning has stayed with me somewhat and I feel it'd be a shame to not give it a go.
    8tetraslash

    Actually a 7.5/10, but I'll give it an 8 since it's a B-movie done well

    First off, since IMDb doesn't allow half-ratings and the current IMDb average is way below what the movie's truly worth, I decided to up my rating to an 8. I've been giving thought as to whether I should settle on a 7, but knowing that The Colony was a B-movie, I generously gave it an 8.

    This movie is surprisingly done well. I have a personal liking for post-apocalyptic settings, and this one hits the nail on the spot, for what they chose. As the plot states, a small colony of survivors attempt to survive an ice age, and some unforeseen circumstances occur.

    There isn't much I can say about the movie, apart from the fact that I felt that it was definitely worth the time to watch. It's a really solid movie, and you won't regret watching it. The acting was fine, there were no outrageous moments, and there were no issues with the other details in the movie, such as the CG (which was done pretty good).

    The pacing of the movie is relatively nice, and the movie finishes just right. The movie wasn't stretched out, nor cut short. Any post-apocalyptic movie can easily be over- or underdone (trying to cram in too many subplots in a small timeframe, or not putting in enough to take full availability of the setting), but this one has just enough.

    There's not much else I can say without spoiling the movie, so I'll just say that if you like post-apocalyptic movies, you're sure to have a kick out of watching this one.
    4albert-marcos

    Why doing bad when yo can do good?

    When I first heard about this film I thought it was going to be like "It" (80's version, of course)or even "30 days of night". I love apocalyptic movies mixed with frozen world and eventually with monsters. Unfortunately, "The collony" turned to be another inconsistent and time- wasting entertainment movie. Yes, I'm talking about usual empty characters, boring plot and of course a good looking hero unable to express anything. A bit of action at the beginning but after knowing the villains you realize nothing good will come. Hollywood guys, please, you have huge resources, spend some more bucks on the script and on the casting and save on fx, anybody can create explosions on the computer but doing a good film is beyond that.
    3alexvojacek

    Awful

    I don't know what the makers were thinking, why will you cast Lawrence Fishburn if you're not going to use it in any meaningful way?.

    The movie portraits humanity after the ice age has begun. The Colony only explains partially what happened to the planet and why we as humans destroyed it burning all the fossil fuel which contributed to a new ice age, all humanity is lost and the only remains are some "colonies" beneath the earth.

    The starting point is quite good, the first minutes of the movie too. Although it is clichéd, it is standard sci-fi, it develop it's characters sufficiently enough but then.. it speeds up its downward spiral once the "enemies" appear on the scene.

    The movie has an incredible change of pace once the enemies arrives with poorly execution on the director's side and just god awful fight scenes... Hardcore music and slaughter, i'm in the 80's again?, is this a joke?, I could accept that kind of embarrassment on a B low movie, I just can't accept it in a movie with Lawrence Fishburn that began as well as this one.

    It's like the director throw away the script and said "just put the rock music and kill everyone, because that's cool!"... He appears to just shoot himself in the foot with the directing the movie takes.

    It goes without saying that this was actually an incredible missed opportunity to tell a interesting story of the survivors of humanity... and a potential hope for the story.

    The conclusion to this mess is, kill your opponents swiftly and survive.

    I wanna kill myself for wasting all this time. How can they ruin their own potentially good story is beyond me. It seems Hollywood is full of stupid people that takes stupid decisions in the making of movies these days.

    Avoid it, if you want to see killing, see it with some meaning added to it. If you want action and scares, go watch Dawn of the Dead, is 1000 times better than this horrendous mess.
    5Sleepin_Dragon

    It's watchable, but frustrating.

    An ice age has wiped out most of humanity, the last remaining survivors form small colonies, and trt to survive sickness, a virus that threatens to wipe out everyone. A distress call from a nearby colony brings a whole new level of threat.

    I'll take into account the fact that this was a B movie when I do my review, clearly not a big budget blockbuster, more a c list sci fi clunker.

    It's not bad film as such, but it's a close run thing. I liked the visuals, liked the acting and I felt it had a sense of atmosphere. The main problem, the story sucked, it just wasn't very interesting, it offered absolutely nothing new.

    A good start, average middle, and an ending that came so abruptly, it hardly felt like a conclusion, it honestly felt like they simply ran out of either time or budget.

    You never feel that you're into it, there's a lot happening, but it all feels disjointed, it doesn't flow. There are some nice action scenes, and the alien beings look pretty good.

    I thought Dru Viergever was rather good as the leader of the alien marauders, he certainly looked the part, he had an imposing presence.

    5/10.

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    • Trivia
      The first movie to be shot at the decommissioned NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) base in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
    • Goofs
      In the beginning of the movie a wind turbine is seen with wings having their trailing edge into the wind instead of its leading edge. The wings are either constructed for counter-clockwise rotation (in the movie the turbine rotates clockwise) or are pitched around 180 degrees. Either way, the turning of the turbine is impossible with this blade configuration.
    • Quotes

      Viktor: You know you're screwed when even the rabbits won't fuck.

    • Crazy credits
      During the end credits, the credits go forward instead of going backwards.
    • Connections
      Featured in On Cinema: 'The World's End' and 'The Colony' (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      The Mirror Blues
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      Performed by Duane Andrews and The Sinjawn Vipers

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    • Release date
      • September 20, 2013 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Vùng Đất Khắc Nghiệt
    • Filming locations
      • North Bay, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Alcina Pictures
      • Item 7
      • Mad Samurai Productions
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    • Budget
      • $16,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $557,865
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 35m(95 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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