The Colony [Blu-ray]

This is a low budget flick that reminded me of films from the 1970's, the effects look like the painted background that you saw back then. IN other words the computer images look almost real and then real in some scenes even. It is actually a fact that if it continues to heat up , it will eventually start to snow out of control and a ice age will return. This one was caused by humans using weather machines but it's still a good idea. The story is very simple , and it in no way features zombies. In fact cannibals attack and eat people in some awful ways. The movie , I saw was unrated so you see them cutting arms off to eat people and such. Bill Paxton plays a out of control chief of security of one colony. Lawrence Fishbourne plays the heroic leader of the same colony. Three of them set off to find out what happened to another colony and meet up with some nasty cannibals. The cannibals chase them back to their colony. At that point , they get in through the vents, This film has a smaller budget than you would think by looking at it. It is not a bad film, nor is it a great one, it's a good flick about the end of the world though. It isn't good on a character level as everyone just fights cannibals basically. That makes for a very fast adventure film that is shallow character wise. I love slow character driven movies too, but a quick paced action flick about fighting cannibals in a frozen world is entertaining too. It's not a serious flick and was influenced by the excellent "ghosts of mars" , but these are just cannibals.

Very entertaining

We enter into a frozen world, the result of climate change machines gone amok, although the true details were left fuzzy. A small group is underground, trying to survive, with very harsh rules. A cold or flu can be deadly to the survivors. Laurence Fishburne carried the film for most of the movie, and Bill Paxton towards the end, although his character was far less noble than that of Fishburne. There are apparently colonies scattered in this desolate landscape, and a SOS is received. A small team goes to investigate, and finds that feral scavengers killed everyone. Those ferals used to be human, but have taken to survival at the rawest form, and they follow them back to the colony. The latter part of the movie is rather bloody, as it is raw combat. It is a world of survival on the edge, and a rather bleak picture at that. It did, however keep my interest, primarily due to the two stars in the picture. The rest of the actors were more forgettable. Don’t spend too much time about the gaps in logic, or you will miss the flow of the picture. Most of those gaps relate to being outside in the extreme cold.

It seemed like it would be another zombie movie, but the viruses that they were fighting were the common cold, the flu, you know, the stuff that comes during our annual celebration of the flu season. Well the it is probably the drugs companies that celebrate.Anyhow, they weren't crazy from the viruses. They were ferel people because... I guess, it was because they ate human flesh. Yes, the danger in this movie is not the virus, not the idiot who craves power and wants to be in charge, (By the way, they should have shot him immediately after he was discovered to crave power.)The real threat to their survival were the cannibals.Anyhow, I believe this is a heads-up movie. Heads-up to what it can lead to with a believe that there is a killing virus flying about and food starts to run out. People want to own guns for protection. They want gun ownership for hunting humans.

Seriously, people who know nothing about science have no business writing science fiction. It seems like the whole point has become to try to dis science and engineering. If you are going to make something the cause for calamity: corporate greed, the 1%, natural disaster, something from outer space, are more plausible. Of course, all these are tired too, but technology backfiring is more than overused. The whole point of writing science fiction is to free your creativity. But this is as formulaic and predictable as it gets. They only thing not predictable is the timing of the elimination of the Fishburn character...because it was unnecessary...and a bad plot choice. And that just hurt everything, because he was interesting to watch. And there was really only enough plot for 45 minutes. But it had to be drawn out...stretch...stretch...stretch. And you get the impression that they have drug their feet so badly that they did not even have room for the end. I'm sorry, you don't have the right to make it a cliffhanger dragging your feet like that...it just looks like a failure to imagine the end...or utter incompetence managing your time.And the idiots take 3 cans of seeds and nothing else when there are shelves of seeds and chickens, bees, and rabbits. People are going to get mighty tired of three crops, even if everything goes exactly as planned.And only idiots abandon their home when it is by far the best thing out there.Then there is emptying 5 rounds into one crazed cannibal when there are 30 crazed cannibals. And no one bothers to say..."Hey, conserve your ammo."The crazed cannibals had 50 people to eat where they were...already dead and dying. Why are they going to go crazily after more? They are going to be more patient. And it only takes an additional 4 hours to cross all those crevasses, and the cannibals loose no one doing so?How would these people develop this cannibalistic way of life? It is not like there are millions of people in hiding to feast on. The screenwriter and the director don't seem to know the difference between cannibals, and zombies. Extras can be forgiven...the director can't be.How is flu going to happen every year, if no one is going from colony to colony and they are just radioing back and forth? Never mind that the flu comes from having poor farmers living in the same hut with chickens and pigs in hot parts of Southeast Asia. And it is basically made anew every year. No comprehension of science on display. Not quite as bad as California falling into the ocean, but pretty dreadful.Then these weather things that were designed to cool things, warm, because you flip a switch. These survivors must be brilliant...of course that also means everyone on the planet when this started were utter buffoons for not thinking of switching any of these into reverse already.And if they are like the others powered by one windmill, there is no way they would have enough energy to produce miles of thawed area. Then there is the fact that windmills break down, and are not going to last 2 decades in high winds, and no maintenance.3 sticks of dynamite held in someone's hand blowing up a section of a steel bridge?Heck, the bridge being damaged at all before the blast makes no sense. A couple decades of cold air is not going to hurt a bridge...especially one with zero traffic. And the weight of a person is going to do nothing to even shattered reinforced concrete. People are just too light. But the windmill never loses a blade? Third grade understanding of infrastructure. And that is generous.

La descripción del producto es totalmente engañosa. Es un blu-ray americano, en la descripción más detallada si lo pone pero la etiqueta llama a engaño. La empresa que sirve el producto es estupenda, se ofrecieron a cambiarlo aunque fuera por otro, ya que no disponían del mismo título en formato europeo. Mi valoración baja es para Amazon por colocarle Reino Unido a la etiqueta del producto i seguir con ello. La película se deja ver aunqu quizá lo único bueno es Laurence Fishburne

Ce film est un peu ennuyeux au départ et devient gore par la suite. Les scènes de violences peuvent choquer ceux qui n'en sont pas particulièrement amateur. Le synopsis n'en parle pas.A ne pas laisser regarder par des enfants en dessous de 15 ans.

Und das Beste daran, der Film funktioniert. Die schauspielerischen Leistungen sind sehr gut und es kommt Spannung auf. Mit Action wird nicht gespart. Ausserdem ist der Film atmosphärisch gelungen. Kameraführung, Special Effects, Schnitt alles erste Sahne. Bildgewaltig.Dieser Film ist eine absolute Überraschung für mich. Von mir eine absolute Kaufempfehlung. Ein Highlight unter dem vielen Schrott welcher derzeit veröffentlicht wird. Der Film hätte sicherlich mehr Werbung verdient. Wer auf die Filme "Alien", "Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt" und "World War Z" steht sollte unbedingt antesten.

Postapocalyptica is something of a cultural zeitgeist at the moment, in particular, end of the world affairs concerned with zombies are immensely popular. Subsequently, my interest was piqued when I came across ‘The Colony’, a 2013 film starring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton.The synopsis provided gives very little away but the trailer for this Canadian production sheds more light on the true nature of the adversaries faced by the protagonists here. The film itself offers little in the way of preamble or prologue but sets the scene admirably within a few short minutes of opening.The team behind this film really made the most of their moderate budget and many of the interior shots are filmed in an old NORAD base, lending some real authenticity to proceedings and creating a darker, grittier feel when compared with other similar studio-based movies. CGI is used when required in ‘The Colony’ for numerous exterior shots but much of it is used in conjunction with practical effects and set-pieces, meaning that the CGI enhances the film rather than takes it over.Fishburne and Paxton lend some weight to the project and with the inclusion of the latter, I think there are more than one or two scenes that owe much to 'Aliens'!The film's not without its flaws, for example: there's no real explanation as to why the antagonists here act in such a feral manner and I feel that there has been a wasted opportunity regarding the use of the NORAD base. There is no real feeling of claustrophobia or indeed that the main players here are trapped.Much to my delight, ‘The Colony’ came with an “18” certificate which is entirely merited. Thankfully, their appears to have been no insistence on curbing the violence or gore here in order to ensure a wider audience. There are some fairly graphic scenes contained herein, including dismemberments, stabbings, throats being cut and some brutal combat scenes. On that note, the fight choreography is particularly well done and Laurence Fishburne at one point cuts a swathe through the villains of the piece singlehandedly.The film’s 94 minutes of running time at no point dragged and I found myself drawn in to the postapocalyptic world portrayed here, despite the absence of any real explanation as to the reason behind mankind’s fate. This is an hour and a half of action driven horror with some convincing performances, great set-pieces and brutal horror. What’s not to like?!

If only I have listened to this warning, I would have saved 90 minutes of my life which I will never get back... Sadly, I didn't. I really wanted to like this film, but ultimately I couldn't. Below, more of my impressions, with some SPOILERS.In near future weather machines were build to control the climate change - but they malfunctioned... One day it began to snow and never stopped since... Most humans perished and the few survivors live in underground bunkers to escape the extreme cold of new Ice Age. In one such outpost, Colony 7, led by former soldiers Briggs (Laurence Fishburne) and Mason (Bill Paxton), a distress radio signal is received from Colony 5 - which after that remains silent... As Colony 5 is linked by a pact of alliance with Colony 7, Briggs takes two men, Sam (Kevin Zegers) and young Graydon (Atticus Dean Mitchell) and together they go to see what assistance they can offer. They will not like what they find... And then the film really begins...This Canadian 2013 post-apocalyptic SF/horror had some potential, as the initial idea was good and the settings (grim industrial sites lost in the middle of frozen wastelands) were well done. At 16 million USD budget was honorable for a small production and two good, well known actors (Fishburne and Paxton) were hired. However, almost all this potential was cruelly wasted, mostly because of weakness of scenario, which seems have been written on the knee, during a short break taken by the scenarist from his day time job (which I would advise him NOT to quit...) .Everything in this film is a cliché and every single development can be anticipated like 10 minutes in advance. We are told who will be Ze Bad Guy (ZBG) in the first 30 seconds of the film (it is the character played by Bill Paxton) and just in case the first scene in the film doesn't identify ZBG clearly enough, oh, I don't know, let's just name him Mason, to make things more obvious...))) Dialogs are completely devoided of interest and the ONLY memorable line in the film is the one used as the title of this review. In fact, the writer of the scenario was so uncomfortable with dialogs, that just to save himself some effort he made certain that half of the characters are unable to speak at all...)))Both renowned actors, Fishburne and Paxton, are completely wasted in this film - one (not saying which one) has not enough time screen and the other is asked to do and say things that he himself cannot believe he is doing/saying them, so stupid and illogical they are... The main female character, Kai (Charlotte Sullivan) is just there to make some figuration and the main male character, Sam, is so pale and banal, that I completely didn't care what will happen to him... There are some action scenes, but they are really so lame that I simply fast forwarded them. Finally, last but not least, absolutely NOTHING in the story ever makes sense and every time when a promising idea or development appears, the director just kills immediately the person who could carry them...Bottom line, this film is a major disappointment and almost a case study about how NOT TO make films... Two stars only for some nice images of this frozen world - otherwise AVOID this thing as if it was Mutant Drug Resistant Ice Age Flu...