![]() ![]() ![]() Greenland sits comfortably between the two, being nowhere as silly and preposterously sentimental as Armageddon and undeniably more pessimistic about the future than Deep Impact. Both those earlier films were released in the same year with an almost identical premise, though Deep Impact featured nearly respectable science in places. With plenty of soul-searching, Greenland is reminiscent of Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact (1998) which is largely considered to be far superior to the brash and risibly over the top Armageddon. Baccarin gives a sedate and wonderfully understated performance as Allison, while Roger Dale Floyd shows once again that he has a great career ahead of him. The film manages something truly unique by showing that you don’t need astronomical budgets to make a decent disaster movie.īutler does what comes to him naturally and is hugely likeable as John, the gruff and not always squeaky clean hero. ![]() Set against Geostorm’s lavish $120 million cost, Greenland’s $35 million price tag seems impressively modest. Beyond the poor science (we are expected to believe that no one had envisaged that the comet might even come close to hitting Earth until it does, and that its trajectory wouldn’t have been calculated repeatedly), this is a genuinely spectacular production with impressive CGI of the comet and the initial impact and destruction. You can guess where the planes are headed!īutler may have been over the top in the recent disaster movie Geostorm, but thankfully there is more to his performance this time – and to Greenland. Since this is a Gerard Butler movie, things don’t go to plan: confusion ensues as the family is separated, and they must do their best to find each other again to stand a chance of boarding a flight to safety. When the first fragment of the comet unexpectedly hits Tampa in Florida, the couple and their young diabetic son scramble to reach a nearby air force base where they are due to board a flight to safety with two days to go before the big impact. Shortly before the comet is supposedly due to miss Earth by a whisker, John receives an automated call with instructions that he and his family have been selected for imminent evacuation. Meanwhile, the whole neighbourhood have gathered around John and Allison’s TV to watch the near-Earth passing of a recently discovered interstellar comet, named Clarke. Having moved out after an undisclosed indiscretion, John has returned to the family home to patch things up with his wife. Structural engineer John Garrity (Butler) lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his estranged wife Allison ( Homeland and Firefly star Morena Baccarin) and their son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd, Dr Sleep’s young Danny Torrance). Written by Chris Sparling ( Buried) and co-produced by Butler, Greenland follows a family which must fight for survival while a planet-levelling comet races towards Earth. ![]()
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