Greenland 2: Migration Movie Review

“Greenland 2: Migration” is a follow-up movie from the prior ‘end-of-the-world disaster movie’ named “Greenland”. In the other movie, a family found a safe shelter. The safety comes to an end five years later. They must travel into the unknown to find a new safe place.

 

This family is living in the post-apocalypse world after the comet strike. This includes John Garrity (played by Gerard Butler), who is an engineer and is good at keeping things working in the Greenland bunker.

 

He had escaped there with his wife, Allison (played by Morena Baccarin) during the initial chaos of the comet strike. They have their son, Nathan (played by Roman Griffin Davis), who is now 15-years old.

 

Things in Greenland are looking bleak. The dust and ash are stirred up by fierce storms. There is some radioactivity and other unhealthy things in the air. The island of Greenland is starting to have more earthquakes, as the tectonic plates shift.

 

The limited space and food in the shelter is big concern. John makes some journeys outside to the shoreline, using protective gear. He has found a handful of escape boats next to a ruined destroyer.

 

The people in charge of the shelter include Dr. Amina (played by Amber Rose Revah). Between Allison, the US military, Dr. Amina – they decide to leave the shelter and start look to get to Europe. There are some reports of a place they call it the ‘Crater’. It is located near the south of France.

 

During a major quake, John leads his family out to the shoreline where he found the escape boats. A few of the survivors get on one boat and head out to England. This includes the Garrity family, Dr. Amina and several others.

 

There are huge ocean swells, and limited guidance systems to help them. But they end up in Liverpool. There is a secured location where they all try to go. But it gets overrun by the locals. Some people are now dead.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family and Dr. Amina venture out to get to London. They find a friendly fellow who is driving a beat-up van. This is Obi (played by Ken Nwosu), who is originally from Nigeria.

 

For the cost of a fine Rolex, he will drive this group to London. They are close to the city, but stop for a break. Obi tells John that he came to England for a new start. The comet strike jumped that up a notch. He makes his living driving people around now.

 

But the comet broke into many pieces five years ago, and these fragments still cause concern. They circle the Earth and crash down (when the plot demands it). John and his family, and Dr. Amina, and also Obi — they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s a new storm of fragments hitting right where they stopped. Soon Obi, and his helpful beat-up van, is a thing of the past. It is ‘walking to London’ time again.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family and Dr. Amina get to London — where Allison knows a long-time friend. This is her pal Mackenzie (played by Sophie Thompson). They locate her friend at a closed-down hospital. Mackenzie stays there to help a group of dementia patients. She will not leave them. She knows a little about the ‘Crater’. But she does not know if it a fact, or just wishful thinking.

 

John Garrity has been very sick for a long time, due to his activities back at the Greenland bunker. He was exposed to dust, ash and radioactivity for five years. He tells Allison that the doctor has told him he has only a few more months left.

 

That is why it is so important for him to make sure that Allison and Nathan get to the safety of the ‘Crater’. Allison is wrought with painful emotions. But they both decide to carry on.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family and Dr. Amina are given a car to use by Mackenzie. They will be able to use it to get to the English Channel. When they cross it, thy will be able to continue south into France.

 

But later that night, there are brigands out on the road. John has a gun, also a gift from Mackenzie. He and Allison face off against the brigands and robbers. But now Dr. Amina is a thing of the past. The family group pushes on.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family gets to where the English Channel used to be. Serious lava flows and ash are all that remain. They manage to get across some wonky rope bridges and some rickety ladders. They cross a huge gash in the rocks. Many people had tried to get across, and a few of them make it.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family walks into the northern end of France. They happen to come upon the shotgun-toting postal worker, named Denis (played by William Adadi).

 

He is one of the few people in the post-apocalypse world who works as a ‘Postman’. I wonder if he knows Kevin Costner? Regardless, he sees that the Garrity family is in need of this help. He brings them to his little village of Calais. He drives them in his yellow post office van.

 

Denis has a wife in wheelchair, and he will not leave here. He has also heard about the ‘Crater’. He knows that different forces are fighting in the south of France. He personally knows the General who is stationed there.

 

So, if the family goes down to the south of France, he knows that this General will help them get to the ‘Crater’. There, they can start a new life, and the dust and ash and radioactivity will be kept out.

 

Denis also decides to let the Garrity family take his yellow post office van. They can drive down there to find a new Paradise. But Denis will do this only if they also bring along his daughter.

 

Denis has a 15-year old girl named Camille (played by Nelia Da Costa). She is willing to be guide and interpreter for the family as they drive down to southern France. Denis and his wife know that they will never leave, but he wants his daughter to have a chance in life.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, the Garrity family, along with Camille, makes it to southern France. There is heavy fighting going on. A soldier stops the yellow post office van. He knows the General who is a friend of Denis. He takes the family (plus Camille) to the battlefront.

 

Well, how about that? They had counted on the General being the one to get them across. But now the General is a thing of the past.  But there is another soldier who is willing to take this motley crew through the battle trenches to the bus stop.

 

By some unbelievable miracle, there is an ‘airport bus’ that has been set up to take people over the steep hills that surround the ‘Crater’. The Garrity family, along with Camille, gets on this bus and they are finally close to getting there.

 

But of course, there are brigands out on the road. This time John does not have a gun. These robbers want to steal the bus and take it for their own. How can this one journey be filled with so many instances of close calls and crazy twists?

 

There is a fight aboard the bus, and some people make it out. Some others are a thing of the past. But the Garrity family, along with Camille, pushes onward. They are slowing going up that slope, to the top of the hill.

 

Will there be a peaceful paradise on the other side? Or will it be a desolate dead Crater? With this emotional roller-coaster still going, it seems this movie wants to make a “Deep Impact”…

 

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“Greenland 2: Migration” is a continuing story from the first movie (“Greenland”). The story is played out with intense seriousness. However, every twist and turn is ‘some unbelievable miracle’ that counters the serious mood.

 

Gerard Butler plays a grumpy middle-aged man (John) really well, and he seems to take on the character with gloom and doom. Also, Morena Baccarin does a great job able to play Allison. She has a strict moral code that bends with every desperate situation.

 

The plot moves the family along based on the thinnest of ideas. The way they encounter ‘some unbelievable miracle’ every few scenes is a puzzler. It is five years after a world-destroying event. Yet these folks have no problem finding reliable transportation. Maybe the next in the franchise will be “Greenland: Gas Stations of the Apocalypse”?

 

“Greenland 2: Migration” wants to make you feel emotions that have “Deep Impact”, but many of the plot lines get swept up by a “Geostorm”…