The Colony (1995)

Just perfect...

Good concept, poorly executed.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Admirable film.

THE COLONY is one of those warning films that did a pretty good job of exposing the "communities" that are now popped up all over and prison is more accurate. And THE COLONY was mild compared to what is really happening now all over in these government controlled "communities". I have friends who are trapped in them and cannot get out ! THE COLONY tried to show as many events that happen as it could in a short less then two hour film. It did an excellent job. The victims are made to think everything is just wonderful - until all their money is gone and they are trapped inside and then the obedience and submission training begins. These 'homes' or apartment complexes are nothing more then prisons for training submission. And the 24/7 monitoring is true - inside as well as outside of the home cell ! Everything is controlled inside and outside of the home 'cell'. I could go into more details not covered in the film, but this film is a good warning to those who think they are 'safe' in these prisons. You're not ! You are nothing more then a controlled submissive robot ! And the water is totally a mind controlling chemical toxic concoction that the DC govt has put all over to keep the people passive and under control, which is why America is the ONLY country that has not had a people rebellion against their tyranny govt.These "communities" are mini cities of submission training just as the whole nation is, on the larger scale. THE COLONY NEEDS TO BE SHOWN ON TV EVERY FEW MONTHS AT LEAST. it is a great film. And the actors in their characters were good in their roles. This film is mild compared to what is really happening out here ! It gives you a view of it all and the future. But the homes are not as luxurious as shown in the film.

Looking beyond my fabulous title for this review, we have-had-will have- in front of our eyes, which are often connected to narrow minds, a blank movie, with blank characters and with a blank intrigue. Actually that means it's...not too good, right? Sure, the idea is all there might ever be to this movie, an idea which I would like to analyze a bit further on. But except the idea, what does this movie have? Not much, really, but enough, enough to be decent...unlike others. SPOILERSLet me put it this way: this is very much a movie made for children, which sadly and unsuccessfully tries to be for grown ups. Especially regarding the acting, the plot and the way the plot develops. And even more just by looking at the idiotic security officers. They could actually be placed on a movie poster for this "creation". The story at hand is about a family which moves to "the perfect place", a community which its members like to regard as flawless. Surely, though, the dream of human perfection starts falling apart day by day and frame by frame. Yet I think this special society is how our world will soon look like. Democracy might very well be terribly diminished and all there might be left from this idea will be a vague shadow. We are already being controlled through the internet and just think that with the satellites we humans have launched into orbit, we can spy on each other(or better to say we can be spied upon) regardlessly of our feelings and desires. I just fear that this total control (which should be for our good) will actually lead man kind to a terrible dark age sometime in the future. We never like to be told what to do, do we? And humans should never be perfect, because then they there would exist Gods among humans. Sure, this movie might be fun to watch, sometime, after midnight, when you're really bored and don't have anything else to do(as it was in my case) but it will never ever gain a mark higher than 6.5.

This could have been a good movie, except it was too tame. Not enough menace in the menace, if you know what I mean. If you want to at least read it done right, read a novel called The Association, by Bentley Little. It's almost the exact same concept, but it actually makes you fear the big boogey man.

I saw this film 2001 and didn´t like it too much.John Ritter is a security agent who´s given the opportunity to move to a totally crimeless society outside the town. He moves to this place with his family, and in the beginning everything seems like heaven. But after a while he and his family begins to think that everything is not right.The man (Hal Linden) who´s running the place is a very excentric old man with a lot of strange ideas... Pretty good idea (but I´ve seen it before....)