Greenland Review: Epic Destruction Saves Gerard Butler s Weepy Disaster Flick
Greenland Review: Epic Destruction Saves Gerard Butler s Weepy Disaster Flick
An architect races against time to shelter his family from a comet s impact in Greenland, on demand from STX Films.
Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin race against the apocalypse in the middling disaster thriller,
Greenland. The film is loaded with eye candy. Desperate people running for their lives, cities blown to cinders, and the requisite countdown to extinction; ticking away in the background. The elements are there for gritty popcorn cinema. But the narrative is torpedoed by sappy melodrama and contrived plot twists.
âGreenlandâ: When a comet hits, stay close to Gerard Butler â and far from Tampa
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated December 16, 2020, 1:09 p.m.
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Gerard Butler in Greenland. STX Entertainment (Custom credit)
Do you really want to watch a movie about the end of the world when weâve spent most of 2020 wondering if the world is actually ending? âGreenland,â a solid, stolid disaster film arriving on major streaming platforms this week, posits that the sky is falling, puts manly Gerard Butler in the middle of it, and asks us to be diverted by the spectacle of civic breakdown and mass panic. Are you not entertained? Somewhat surprisingly, yes. But I donât know that you or I would have had the stomach for this movie a few months ago, when no end of the tunnel seemed in sight.
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Greenland limps to the finish line with a finale that wouldnât have been so frustrating if the movie hadnât shown itself capable of more.
Starring:
Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor
Written By:
Chris Sparling
Greenland limps to the finish line with a finale that wouldnât have been so frustrating if the movie hadnât shown itself capable of more.
Movies are artifacts of the world in which they are made, and that includes the timing of their release. It may not be fair to judge Ric Roman Waugh s
Film about a planet-killer comet goes for drama over disaster. It doesn’t exactly work. Michael O Sullivan Rating: (1.5 stars) If you’re looking for an excellent internalized drama in the guise of a disaster flick, I suggest that you watch “The Midnight Sky” on Netflix. “Greenland,” on the other hand a middlebrow, moderate-budget action adventure starring Gerard Butler as a man trying to save his marriage, his son and his life from a disintegrating “planet-killer” comet that is heading straight for Earth feels like something of a bait-and-switch.
[George Clooney dazzles in front of and behind the camera in ‘The Midnight Sky’]
Film about a planet-killer comet goes for drama over disaster
Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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If you re looking for an excellent internalized drama in the guise of a disaster flick, I suggest that you watch The Midnight Sky on Netflix. Greenland, on the other hand - a middlebrow, moderate-budget action adventure starring Gerard Butler as a man trying to save his marriage, his son and his life from a disintegrating planet-killer comet that is heading straight for Earth - feels like something of a bait-and-switch.