Set against an endless Ice Age in the year 2045, a band of humans survive underground, growing food, avoiding life-threatening plagues, and bickering over the best way to run society. So not all that different from the world pre-apocalypse.
Like all good wasteland pop-up civilizations, The Colony has a good-looking young person, Sam (Kevin Zegers), a gal for him to lust over (Charolette Sullivan), and two former military men with diametrically opposed viewpoints on how to manage people (Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton). Together, they clash harder than Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.
The Colony is clearly made on the cheap, relying on world-building dialogue to fill in the gaps where more expensive films would pile on set-pieces. That may not fly for hard-nosed genre fans, but when you have guys like Fishburne and Paxton doing the heavy lifting, it's entertaining. The film opens with the two arguing, Sam in the middle. A colonist has come down with the sneezes, which leaves him with two options: Take a walk into the snow (the slow death) or take a bullet in the head (the fast death). It's up to the infected to choose, but Paxton's Mason prefers the latter method. Because he's a meanie.
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