Storyline
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garrity's experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
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Gerard Butler, Holt McCallany, Hope Davis, Scott Glenn, David Denman, Morena Baccarin, Scott Poythress, Randall Archer, Gary Weeks, Kendrick Cross, Joshua Mikel, Mike Gassaway, Tracey Bonner, Andrew Bachelor, Claire Bronson, Brandon Quinn, Merrin Dungey, Cate Jones, Rick Pasqualone, Roger Dale Floyd, Hayes Mercure, Anissa Matlock, Madison Johnson, Nicola Lambo
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Reviews
83
At first glance, Ric Roman Waugh’s Greenland appears to be a spiritual sequel to Geostorm. Also starring Gerard Butler, that 2017 film is a silly, diverting disaster-action epic. Greenland is decidedly more nuanced, cerebral, and, frankly, memorable.
75
Unlike the typical, effects-laden, comet-threatens-the-planet B-movie, Greenland is more in the vein of Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds,” with the scenes of chaos and destruction serving as the backdrop for the story of one family’s desperate quest for survival — even when circumstances have ripped them apart.
75
Things grow a bit squidgy whenever Waugh goes in for the money shots, but his eyes are seldom bigger than his wallet in a film that mines little suspense from the Garritys’ far-fetched race to safety, and a lot from their scramble to reunite whenever they get separated.
70
And yet, what makes Greenland stand out is how, at certain times, what we’re watching doesn’t seem so spectacular, but very much like the real thing — albeit with a fair amount of VFX and Butler’s own brand of sweaty, stress-bucket bravado.
63
There are enough left turns here to allow us to shake the impression that we’ve been to this rodeo before.
