Ric Roman Waugh’s thrillingly tense new movie, Greenland, starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin, from a screenplay written by Chris Sparling, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in the U.K.
The STX-backed film, with a limited budget of $35 million (compared to the $120 million for Geostorm), was one of the few to still be released into theaters in many countries across Europe in 2020, grossing a more-than-decent $47.8 million at the international box office considering the conditions. The film did surprising well in France, for example, despite being shown in fewer theaters. The movie was released online in the U.S. in December 2020, and is now available in the U.K. on Amazon Prime Video from February 5.
Greenland is a riveting disaster movie about a family’s fight for survival as a huge comet makes its way to potentially destroy all life on Earth. John Garrity, his wife Ali and their son Nathan go on a perilous journey to find a safe shelter. Along the way, the family will experience the best and worst of humanity as the countdown to global apocalypse approaches.
Greenland is a stressful rollercoaster ride with not a dull moment, even with its far-fetched plot turns, that’ll make you wish to have been able to see it on a big screen—the sort of film that makes you frantically eat all your popcorn in the first ten minutes when the action starts, that is how tense it is.
Greenland follows John Garrity (Gerard Butler), a structural engineer, who has moved out of the family home for a reason which will only be revealed much later in the movie. When the film begins, John is moving back as the family prepares to invite their neighbors over for barbecue. As John’ son Nathan (played by Roger Dale Floyd) throws himself into his arms, it is clear John wants to patch things up with his wife Ali (played by Morena Baccarin).
When Ali sends John on an errand to the supermarket before their guests arrive, John receives a presidential alert from the government, warning to prepare with his family for imminent evacuation. The alert shows again while their neighbors are at their house, all watching the news on TV about the imminent arrival of comet Clarke. This time, the message from the government gives instructions that he and his family have been selected for evacuation and must now go to an airbase to be taken to shelter in an undisclosed location.
As a piece of the comet falls unexpectedly in Florida, sending shockwaves that knocks Gerard Butler’s character down, it becomes abundantly clear that they must go to that shelter, even though none of their friends and neighbors received the presidential message too.
At the airbase, however, John unexpectedly finds himself separated from his wife and son. From there starts John’s, as well as Ali and Nathan’s, perilous journeys to find each other. Along the way, both find themselves in dire situations, revealing the extent to which some are willing to go to survive.
Greenland is a very well-structured disaster movie, right from its beginning. By introducing these three main characters, showing the estrangement between Ali and John, with John wanting to fix things between them, and their loving relationship with their seven-year-old son Nathan, who is diabetic, the film sets up the main dynamics of the storyline about to unfold. What follows is a tense and gripping film that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
What makes this movie work so well is the fact that this is not a disaster movie that relies on spectacle. This is a movie that is character-based, following the journey of an ordinary family facing a global apocalypse. It makes the viewers care about each character, John, Ali and Nathan, and how they will find each other and survive. Every obstacle on their way, be it traffic jams on the highway or looting mayhem, will make any viewer easily identify with this ordinary family struggling to survive an impending apocalypse.
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