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A sturdy, family-first disaster sequel with enough momentum and scale to satisfy fans of survival thrillers, but it sounds more functional than thrilling and leans heavily on familiar post-apocalyptic beats. The appeal is less originality than competence: tense travel, harsh environments, and a determined central… Read more
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Wed · 1h 38m
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Ric Roman Waugh
Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis
A sturdy, family-first disaster sequel with enough momentum and scale to satisfy fans of survival thrillers, but it sounds more functional than thrilling and leans heavily on familiar post-apocalyptic beats. The appeal is less originality than competence: tense travel, harsh environments, and a determined central family under pressure.
Greenland 2: Migration looks built for the same audience that made the first film work: people who want a serious, no-nonsense disaster movie with a human center. The premise shifts from bunker survival to a hazardous trek across a ruined Europe, which gives the sequel a more travelogue-like structure and a broader sense of danger.
The tone appears grim but accessible, with the kind of relentless obstacle course that keeps a family thriller moving even when the story is familiar. That can be satisfying if you want efficiency and tension rather than invention. The Letterboxd reaction suggests a movie that is often more amusingly overdetermined than truly moving, but still watchable in a blunt, high-stakes way.
If you liked the first film’s earnestness and want another round of catastrophe, this should do the job. If you’re hoping the sequel will deepen the concept or reinvent the genre, it probably won’t get there.
Joe A (2.5★) · 2172 likes
Apparently to survive a post-apocalyptic situation, you just have to say “please” a lot.
Norah_x (2★) · 1378 likes
End-of-the-world movie where the most unrealistic part is the French being helpful and understanding English.
allain♡ · 1259 likes
still don’t understand why people in disaster films have so much will to live. i’d rather let a comet hit me than go through all that, no thanks
Julstory (2★) · 904 likes
I just KNOW that kid was so happy when the french dude went: “Please take my daughter with you.”
cob (1.5★) · 776 likes
yeah that’s a january release alright
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survival, family under pressure, post-apocalyptic journey, disaster aftermath, migration and displacement, resource scarcity, protective parenthood, endurance
disaster thriller, post-apocalyptic, survival, family drama, road movie, tense, grim, blockbuster, 2020s, European wasteland