The Colony (2021)

Boring & Predictable SciFi - The Colony review by GI

The advertising poster promises so much, even some colour, and yet this film is a poorly conceived, bleak and bland affair that has missed so many opportunities to be a half decent science fiction film. The background is that far in the future humanity has left a decimated Earth and now lives on a distant world. A mission was sent back to see if things have improved but it was lost. Blake (Nora Arnezeder), whose father was on the earlier mission, is part of a three man crew sent years later on mission number 2. It all goes wrong from the moment they arrive not least their space capsule, which even in the twentieth century were designed to float on water, now apparently sink like stones. They have no communications equipment and in short her mates get killed and she is left on a now very watery planet where the tides are a daily hazard. Then surprise, surprise there's still some humans around, a bit savage and they have children (which the 'other' humans' now can't have of some reason or another). She has to earn their trust and does so when some even more savage people kidnap the slightly less savage children and Blake heads off to help rescue them only to discover survivors from Mission number one who are now bad people with a nasty agenda. It's all predictable, boring and ends up with shooting (yep guns and ammo can still be found aplenty!). Forget this, its a waste of time.