Gerard Butler: Greenland is a disaster film with a hopeful message
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Gerard Butler can now be seen in the action picture, Greenland. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Morena Baccarin arrives on the red carpet at the screening of Framing John DeLorean in 2019 in New York City. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) Gerard Butler said the script for Greenland wasn t like any other disaster-action movie he had ever read because it realistically showed how high the stakes were through the eyes of one imperiled family. It just sucked me into this world, the 51-year-old Scottish actor told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
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If the disaster genre is to be believed, global cataclysms are nothing short of free couples therapy and family counseling. Why spend all that time trying to repair your marriage or become a better parent to your children when a couple days in the face of certain annihilation from alien invaders, asteroids, or extreme inclement weather will do the trick?
Greenland is, in this respect no different. Pandemic be damned, our annual paint-by-numbers Gerard Butler movie is here, and if Paisley’s favorite son isn’t going to save the president or the planet, he’s at least going to save his family.
Angel Has Fallen, the first outing between the director and franchise star Butler, the two men turned a borderline superhero into a three-dimensional – or at least a two-and-a-half dimensional – human being. It should come as no surprise that
Greenland, the latest collaboration between the two, continues their preference for characters above spectacle. It may not always hold together, but let’s face it: Plenty of Hollywood filmmakers have done a lot worse with more.
John (Butler) and Allison (Baccarin) Garrity are in a vulnerable place. After weathering an unspoken breach of trust, the couple is doing their best to reconcile for the sake of their son (Floyd). And with so much pressure on their marriage, the two barely notice the news updates about Clarke, a newly discovered comet from another solar system. Soon, though, John receives a priority message from the United States government ordering him and his family to an underground bunker. It isn’t long before the entire wo
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh.
Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Hope Davis, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, Andrew Bachelor, Merrin Dungey, Holt McCallany, Gary Weeks, Tracey Bonner, Joshua Mikel, Cate Jones, Mike Gassaway, Anissa Matlock, Randall Archer, Scott Poythress, Claire Bronson, and Madison Johnson.
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Given the history of recent Gerard Butler B-grade action flicks I half expected that
Greenland would see the scruffy and imposing physical specimen of an actor find some way to take out the comet by either screaming at it or punching it in a violent drunken rage (like say his
Den of Thieves character or just about anyone he plays). And while that does sound, for better or worse, entertaining, director Ric Roman Waugh (a regular collaborator of these Gerard Butler doomsday spectacles) has decided to use the comet as more of a framing device than anything, focusing on how such a cataclysmic scenario would bring out the worst traits of society sim
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