Greenland Review: Compelling Moments & Plenty of Fine Performances
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Independence Day,
The Day After Tomorrow and
2012 basically any movie directed by Roland Emmerich in that it tells a tale of a broken family who rekindle their love amidst a devastating apocalypse. People die by the billions in this movie, but who cares so long as the main cast survives until the end? In this case, John Garrity (Gerard Butler) and Allison (Morena Baccarin) are newly separated parents struggling to adapt to their new lifestyle. “How long is this going to be awkward,” John asks his ex-wife early in the film. “As long as there’s not a world-ending event just around the corner,” she replies.
Greenland (2020) Review - Unique or Cliche? Tommy F Tiffin School Greenland (released 2020 to select audiences) is an action movie starring Gerard Butler, directed by Ric Waugh. NASA alerted the public of an inbound comet, expected to make a ‘safe flyover’ given the name of Clarke. However, things take a turn for the worse when protagonist, John Garrity (Butler) receives a communication alert on his phone advising that he has been selected to be moved to a classified bunker. A plot-line attempted by many films previously, none taking too many accolades. While Greenland featured some stunning visuals, at some points the writing let it down.
One of the genuine guilty pleasures of last yearâs lockdown releases was
Skyfire, a spectacularly silly Chinese disaster movie in which Jason Isaacs builds a hotel on the side of a volcano and then tries to reassure everyone (in a South African accent) that âweâre all going to be fine!â After watching Gerard Butler get into a fistfight with the weather in
Geostorm, I had similar expectations of this end-of-the-world action film about an impending meteor strike. But though originally announced with Chris Evans as star and Neill Blomkamp of
District 9
as director,
Greenland turns out to be the perfect vehicle for Butler and director Ric Roman Waugh, reuniting after
LONDON: You’d be forgiven for assuming that any movie which sees action movie stalwart Gerard Butler reuniting with “Angel Has Fallen” director Ric Roman Waugh would be a heady mix of CGI-heavy spectacle and bombastic set pieces in which Butler (probably singlehandedly) triumphs over the laws of physics and probability alike.