Colony(2026)

Solid movie that manages to entertain for most of its runtime. It found a new idea in evolving zombies and manages to keep raising the stakes, but otherwise follows the rather formulaic zombie film story beat. There were a few scenes, including that death spiral scene, that looked very cool visually. But to achieve that the film paid a pretty steep cost in focus -- I think this film would have been more interested if it was wholly contained in that mall and given its side characters a little more room to shine. That also would have helped the social commentary that it attempted to do but wasn't really successful. As aways Jun Ji-hyun slayed, perhaps a little too much. That perfect face of makeup would always take me out of the scene a little bit even after the sprinklers.