2021 · sci-fi · thriller · disaster
The Colony
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum1h 44m2021
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
Our read: The Colony (2021) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- cold
- epic-stakes
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