The Colony
Image Entertainment | Release Date: September 20, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Village VoiceErnest HardySep 17, 2013
The Colony has modest rewards: It's decently acted, delivers some well-executed jolts, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and is mercifully free of ironic distance. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeJun 27, 2016
Everything here feels inauthentic, from the cast speaking their lines in English to the unthrilling final escape attempt. Read full review
40
EmpireDavid ParkinsonJun 20, 2016
Notwithstanding the efforts of a game cast, this is a grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history by turning it into a piece of white-knuckle entertainment. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveySep 22, 2013
Utterly routine futuristic horror-thriller The Colony substitutes the term “ferals” for plain old zombies (the modern, fast-moving kind), and that’s about it for originality. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 19, 2013
The Colony is two-thirds of a pretty good sci-fi suspense movie. But it eventually takes a disappointing turn and becomes yet another run-from-the-ghouls exercise, cheapening decent work by a good cast. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithSep 30, 2013
Can’t somebody come up with a monster that does something more interesting than run at you screaming, “Yeeaaaarrrrgh”? Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireSep 20, 2013
The problem is that the filmmakers' aversion to any hint of storytelling originality means that the main impression The Colony leaves is one of almost stupefying over-familiarity. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniSep 19, 2013
There are a few nice scares in The Colony, and the female lead, Rookie Blue's 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. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 20, 2013
With a frost-bitten script whose skeletal plot cuts and pastes bits from innumerable other survival yarns, the biggest surprise the film offers is that four people were required to write it. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangSep 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. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundSep 16, 2013
Greedily tries to cram every dystopian curse into one misbegotten plot, resulting in something wildly disjointed, even if its pieces arguably connect. Read full review
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