{"id":2227622,"date":"2026-01-08T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2227622"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:27:07","slug":"greenland-2-migration-review-the-destruction-of-earth-is-the-least-of-gerard-butlers-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/greenland-2-migration-review-the-destruction-of-earth-is-the-least-of-gerard-butlers-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Greenland 2: Migration&#8217; review: The destruction of Earth is the least of Gerard Butler&#8217;s worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2F118506404.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tGREENLAND 2: MIGRATION\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rating\">\n<div class=\"rating__stars\">\n<div class=\"rating__star rating__star--filled\"><?php \/**\n * Review star.\n * \n * @package nyp-editor\n *\/\n\n??><\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n\t.review-block-star {\n\t\t--review-block-star--empty-color: #585858;\n\t\t--review-block-star--fill-color: #000;\n\t}\n]]><\/style>\n<p><svg class=\"icon-star review-block-star\" stroke=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\" fill=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\" stroke-width=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" height=\"13px\" width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path 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Rated PG-13 (some strong violence, bloody images, and action). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welcome to \u201cGreenland 2.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, not the 51st state \u2014 the unnecessary bore of a sequel starring gruntin\u2019 Gerard Butler.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish actor with the gravelly growl of an acid reflux sufferer who just got out of bed has a well-known habit of appearing in crummy films. \u201cGods of Egypt,\u201d \u201cLondon Has Fallen,\u201d \u201cGeostorm,\u201d pick your poison.<\/p>\n<p>So reliably bad is his output that his presence alone has become a kind of manufacturer\u2019s guarantee of low quality.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, in a refreshing change, Butler actually churned out a decent disaster flick called \u201cGreenland\u201d six years ago, which became a surprise hit on paid streaming services. Not much else released in 2020 can make that claim.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>About 15 minutes into its flaccid followup, though, \u201cGreenland 2: Migration,\u201d it\u2019s abundantly clear that his rare, watchable credit was a fluke. Now we\u2019re back to Butler as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The inferior second part, short but not nearly short enough, proves just how ill-prepared its creators were for the original\u2019s success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With No. 1, director Ric Roman Waugh and writer Chris Sparling did a fine, if\u00a0bleak, job at guessing how humanity might react to an impending impact with a comet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting disaster deja vu? \u201cGreenland\u201d hinged on the same basic apocalyptic circumstance of \u201cArmageddon\u201d and \u201cDeep Impact,\u201d only with fewer characters and more fatalism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gerard Butler stars in \u201cGreenland 2: Migration.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John (Butler), his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) raced to board a special government plane to Greenland to make a new life in a secret underground base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the way, they encountered violent foes who\u2019d do anything to steal their coveted spots. The gist was that our own primal instincts are every bit as menacing as the giant space rock.<\/p>\n<p>These filmmakers obviously had no plan for what came next. So, they copied other movies \u2014 including their own! Once again, the loving parents and their frustrated teen hop from place to place in search of a safe haven, meeting brutes and a couple of Good Samaritans along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aliens of \u201cA Quiet Place\u201d and the infecteds of \u201c28 Days Later\u201d are swapped for nondescript, gun-toting men in war zones. The seemingly organized battalions are fighting over I\u2019m not sure what.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>John (Butler) and his family journey across the ocean in search of refuge. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMigration\u201d is set half a decade after the comet called Clarke collided with the planet. Civilization has been decimated. The Eiffel Tower is comically bent and the Sydney Opera House is generically grayish green to suggest decay. About 75% of the world, we\u2019re told, is uninhabitable due to destruction and radiation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even the subterranean base, where we exhaustingly watch the survivors do yoga and dance around, isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be. The shelter is destroyed early on by an underground tremor. So, John, Allison and Nathan must set off for the site of the comet\u2019s crater in the south of France, which is rumored to be lush and protected.<\/p>\n<p>On their snoozy journey through the repetitive dreary wasteland, they encounter bullets and sand. That\u2019s it. The filmmakers use that vague 25%-of-Earth-is-relatively-OK rule to lazily justify how the family can trek from Greenland to continental Europe without being microwaved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>For a post-apocalyptic road trip, the story is awfully ho-hum. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Action sequences involving a \u201cPerfect Storm\u201d-like wave and a perilous rope bridge are neither exciting nor scary. They\u2019re merely cold segues between scenes, like pipe connectors.<\/p>\n<p>There is just one significant complication introduced. Butler coughs a lot throughout the ugly-looking film, so it doesn\u2019t take a scholar to surmise what\u2019s in store for John. The rest is steady as she goes.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why \u201cMigration\u201d is so plain, especially for a risky road trip that crosses both the Atlantic Ocean and English Channel. It\u2019s implausibly routine. <\/p>\n<p>Society is supposed to have endured a dinosaur-level extinction event, and I\u2019ve had more death-defying cab rides to LaGuardia. There are functioning cars, plenty of food and even uncorked bottles of wine. Seems all right to me.<\/p>\n<p>And, without a countdown to impact to maintain an intense mood throughout, \u201cMigration\u201d depends on strong acting to support quieter, introspective moments.<\/p>\n<p>Uh oh. That spells doom for Butler as much as the comet spells doom for Earth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some strong violence, bloody images, and action). In theaters. Welcome to \u201cGreenland 2.\u201d\u00a0 No, not the 51st state \u2014 the unnecessary bore of a sequel starring gruntin\u2019 Gerard Butler. 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