Greenland 2: Migration

Survival. Again. For some reason.

Six years after Greenland, we are thrown back into a cold, hostile world, this time framed as a road movie mixed with apocalypse and blind luck.

After spending five years inside a Greenland bunker following the comet that wiped out around 75% of all life on Earth, the Garrity family realizes their supplies are running out and they have to move on. They don’t even get much time to think — an earthquake destroys the bunker, a tsunami washes away the island, and almost everyone who lived there dies. Their destination becomes the comet impact crater. Dr. Amina from their group believes that life will be reborn there and that it will become some kind of paradise on Earth.

Why does a family with a child — now already a teenager — have to cross an entire continent to reach this crater? Why does it not matter to them that there is a war going on there, which they were warned about? Why not stay somewhere relatively safe like London when the planet is barely surviving? You will not find answers to any of these questions, because they simply aren’t written into the story. The only real answer is: the story has to move forward. That’s it.

From a screenwriting perspective, the film makes no sense. Supporting characters basically do not exist — you don’t care about any of them. We are told from the very beginning that the main character is sick and dying. And the entire journey the family goes through is built on “maybe,” “hopefully,” and “please.” Every time the script hits a dead end, a magical plot twist or a new character suddenly materializes and solves all their problems, conveniently having exactly the right connections the heroes need.

At the same time, the Garrity family themselves feels like a small apocalypse. Wherever they go, that place starts exploding, flooding, collapsing, or getting hit by another comet fragment. If they move — something terrible happens.

Visually, though, this is a very beautiful post-apocalypse. Even though the planet was already destroyed in the first film, this sequel gives us bigger, richer, more detailed and more impressive visuals. The action scenes look great, the dangerous situations feel believable, and the VFX team absolutely deserves credit for that.

At its core, this is still a story about a family that loves each other and is ready to do anything to survive and give their son a chance at life. Maybe that’s exactly why the parents go on this almost religious, blind-faith journey that logically should have killed them all. Maybe it did. And maybe the paradise crater we see in the final scene is something that was waiting for them in another life.

Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis — who replaces Roger Dale Floyd — work well together on screen and do their job properly. Their characters look exhausted, confused, and angry, but still held together by their love for each other. That’s what keeps the story afloat.

Greenland 2: Migration is an easy pick for a casual evening at the cinema with company, when you’re not looking for anything heavy and just want something big and loud on screen.

5.5/10

Thank you Monolith Films for the screening of the movie.