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Greenland (2020)  
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Director:
Ric Roman Waugh |
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COUNTRY
USA |
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Genre
Disaster/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
Greenland |
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RUNNING
TIME
119
minutes |
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Producers:
Gerard Butler
Basil Iwanyk
Sébastien Raybaud
Alan Siegel |
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Screenwriters:
Chris Sparling |
Review
Our planet is under threat
from an interstellar comet on collision course with Earth, and a few
selected families and individuals are invited to seek refuge in an
underground facility at an unknown location, among them Gerard Butler
with wife Morena Baccarin and son Roger Dale Floyd. If the premise
sounds familiar, it's probably because you remember
Armageddon
and Deep
Impact from Hollywood's previous wave of disaster films.
The good news is that Greenland avoids the most glaring pitfalls
of the former. The not so good news is that the film never really is
able to transcend its genre-bound narrative and conventions. You're
always aware that you are watching an industrious Butler doing
everything he can to save his all-American family, even in the handful
of segments when the film is approximating fresh ground, such as with
kid Nathan's insulin predicament.
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