Rating of
3.5/4
Gripping disaster film directed with confidence
Indyfreak - wrote on 03/12/21
Greenland could had been just a simple popcorn flick. Instead it winds up being something more thoughtful, suspenseful, and at several times, frightening.
Gerard Butler plays a family man who races to get his family to sanctuary before a comet strikes the Earth, killing off 75% of all life on the planet. This immediately sounds like another schlocky SyFy Channel movie. But the mood is far darker and the gravity of the situation is never played for laughs. It feels like an older more serious minded disaster movie from the golden age of science fiction cinema.
The cynical argument would be that the movie resonates better because it was released during the pandemic. No, I can safely say that this is one of the best disaster films in years. It’s certainly Gerard Butler’s best movie in ages.
