Colony

“Yeon might be a very good student of the genre, and the deck he crafts is often masterful. It’s just that the communication lessons and memory of human loss don’t hit hard enough as genre lovers on the brink of some AI-enabled civilizational collapse need them to right now.”

“Sang-ho succeeds in creating a thrilling and tense atmosphere, and the film follows its own rules.”

“Yeon Sang-ho's Colony turns a sealed Seoul outbreak into a battle against evolving infected. Its bold ideas and unsettling atmosphere stand out, even as the human drama thins.”

“Similarly, the narrative’s deeper ideas of surveillance, of the spread of information (and misinformation) as something of a virus, are also not explored in any great detail beyond adding an additional level of peril. But that may not matter to horror audiences and, as a modern zombie movie, Colony certainly has a satisfying bite.”

“Despite some wincing sound and production design, Yeon Sang-ho fails to deliver the highs of his best zombie projects.”