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.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2024

A post-apocalyptic survival thriller which looks great, but isn't as exciting as it should have been.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2021

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

Rather than watching tough survivors taking on a deadly foe, we are watching something more akin to a low achieving mouse trying to fight off a gang of militant carpet beetles.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 11, 2014

A collection of disparate genre parts that are presented with a noted lack of snark or irony.

| Oct 17, 2013

[Blu-ray Review] A pretty standard post-apocalyptic thriller, economical but unsure of what it wants to be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 14, 2013

Rote sci-fi dogma fails this flick well before the finish line.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 6, 2013

This sci-fi thriller makes us almost feel the frosty cold in our bones, thanks to cinematographer Pierce Gill's magic touch.

| Sep 29, 2013

Dull and formulaic, it's yet another wannabe post-apocalyptic thriller.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 24, 2013

A zombie by any other name is still a zombie in this utterly routine horror pic.

| Sep 23, 2013

A small-scale science-fiction horror story full of big, troubling ideas about what a new Dark Ages might look like.

| Sep 23, 2013

The Colony would definitely fit into a Saturday night viewing experience...and you don't have to scour the bottom shelf of some dingy Mom and Pop video store to find it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2013

Formulaic post-apocalyptic thriller...when you don't especially care who lives and who dies, all the skull-crunching action doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

| Sep 20, 2013

The filmmakers' aversion to any hint of storytelling originality means that the main impression "The Colony" leaves is one of almost stupefying over-familiarity.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2013

A screaming, lunging, chomping chase movie that has nothing new to bring to a genre that just won't die.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 20, 2013

It's somewhat low-rent and thoroughly humorless - hey, the future's not funny - and, in the manner of the genre, adamantly bleak.

| Original Score: D | Sep 20, 2013

Becomes yet another run-from-the-ghouls exercise, cheapening decent work by a good cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 19, 2013

The film strands its archetypal characters in a featureless danger zone and gives them overly familiar dialogue borrowed from a dozen other B-movies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 19, 2013

Nothing in The Colony feels real. Not the emotions, the settings, the characters or even the cannibals.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 19, 2013