Greenland

This week's movie rental was Greenland ...

a 2020 American disaster film directed by Ric Roman Waugh .... The film stars Gerard Butler (who also co-produced), Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn, David Denman, and Hope Davis. The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth.

I'm kind of fascinated by disaster movies and I like Gerard Butler and Scott Glenn, so I signed up for the movie. Here's a trailer ...



It actually got fairly decent reviews ...

Greenland’: Comet threatens Earth in disaster movie that’s more than just chaos

Even in mindless action fare such as “Den of Thieves” and and “Hunter Killer” and “Angel Has Fallen” and “London Has Fallen” and “Olympus Has Fallen” and that’s a lot of falling, Gerard Butler retains a screen-captivating, grim-faced presence with a burning intensity who leaps giant plot holes in a single bound, usually with a gun in his hand and some sort of dark cloud haunting him. At 51, Butler is firmly in the Bruce Willis/Liam Neeson Zone, with a particular set of skills well-suited to glossy B-movie thriller fare ...

I've liked Gerard Butler since he was in the science fiction film Timeline, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Here Butler is from that film, with Paul Walker ...



But anyway, while the movie was ertertaining, it didn't dwell much on science ... how can an extinction-level event allow for a happy ending? So it's not near the top of my disaster movie list, which includes The Day After Tomorrow and World War Z.