The Colony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.