‘Colony’ Review: Yeon Sang-ho’s Latest Zombie Saga Paints Civilizational Collapse with Too Broad a Brush
Yeon Sang-ho's latest film, 'Colony,' explores a zombie outbreak with a focus on communication among the undead. The story follows a group of survivors trapped in a high-rise during a biotech conference as they face intelligent zombies. While the film offers thrilling action and a coherent narrative, it lacks emotional depth in character development.
- ▪The film features a group of survivors battling quadrupedal zombies with collective intelligence.
- ▪Characters struggle to escape a capitalist grind while navigating the horrors of a zombie apocalypse.
- ▪The lead character, Kwon Se-Jeong, is portrayed as a burnt-out academic who decodes the zombies' evolution.
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A throwaway line early in “Colony,” Yeon Sang-ho’s latest follow-up to his 2016 monster hit “Train to Busan,” between an underdog brother-sister pair of characters, suggests that leaving his job as a mall security guard and the grind of her wheelchair-bound life as an IT employee to go camping would feel like entering civilization. Amid the frenzy, Yeon will shove the siblings (and us) into his newest concocted outbreak of the rabidly moving dead — even more horrific this time thanks to their state-of-the-art bone-crunching limb contortions and green-ghoulish, goo-smattered faces. The word “civilization” can unfairly adjust our expectations.
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