Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
Gripping disaster film directed with confidence
Indyfreak - wrote on 03/12/2021
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 …
Rating of
2/4
Probably not the disaster movie you were hoping 4
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 12/26/2020
Just please give us a call if you find out anything when you get there.
Like where we can go to be safe.
Nothing like a decent disaster movie every now and then. A film that can satisfy the disaster tourist in you. The number of such films that have already been made is countless. The causes of global destruction are varied. There were devastating earthquakes (“Earthquake” and only recently “San Andreas”) that lifted up plateaus and ripped apart entire metropolises. Boats that sank because of a huge wave (“The Poseidon Adventure”) or a stray lump of ice (“Titanic”). Erupting volcanoes (“Dante’s Peak”), oncoming ice ages (“The Day after Tomorrow”), tsunamis (“Lo Imposible”), or (and more appropriately at the moment) a rapidly spreading, deadly virus …
