In the not too distance future-2045-the world has become a giant snowball thanks to mankind’s nasty global warming habits and his attempts to put an end to global warming. We find our heroes in Colony 7, where once four hundred people lived, but now a good deal less are muddling through.
Filmed in an old NORAD base, the sets looked pretty good and while the CGI was not great for the exterior shots, it wasn’t all that bad either. The acting was good, for the most part. I like seeing Bill Paxton and Lawrence Fishburne in movies and as for everyone else, how much skill does it take to scream and run around?
To start off we have a standard post apocalyptic world where 99 and 44/100 percent of the world’s population is dead and those that remain often wish they were dead. At home in Colony 7, we have seeds, animals, and all kinds of elbow room for the thirty or forty people living there.
Our heroes get a call from Colony 5-an SOS and nothing more. Being the good Samaritan types that they are, three of our heroes put on their parkas and trek across the frozen wastes of some never named city buried in snow and ice. They cross a large bridge, spend the night in a downed helicopter, and find a very similar set of chimneys as those poking out of the snow at Colony 7-we are at Colony 5. But there is no good news, pools of blood greet them everywhere they go.
So, it isn’t bad enough to live in a world where death is only a short walk in the snow away, we need to have Bad Guys as well. The Monsters are, well, something of a mystery. They don’t seem to be zombies or vampires, though their leader does have sharp teeth and a knack for staying alive where lesser mortals would die. No, it seems that the Bad Guys are just hungry people who like nothing more than a couple of dozen rotting corpses laying around to snack on when they get peckish.
In the end, The Colony felt a lot more like a failed TV Pilot than a regular movie, despite the sort of big names in the cast. The story just sort of ended, where I was expecting at least one more scene to close the story a bit. It was clearly made with sequels in mind, which seems a bit optimistic.
