There are cases where a sequel seems all but inevitable. Not because the story demands it, though there is room to set it up, but because it ends up connecting with audiences in a way that makes them seem to want more. Yet sometimes this appetite is misjudged and you get things like ‘Greenland 2’ (’Greenland 2: Migration’).
Migrating to a New Home
The sequel to the surprise hit of post-apocalyptic action starring Gerard Butler failed to draw the same crowd, and together with its higher production costs, it became a flop at its opening. Now it hopes to redeem itself on streaming via Amazon Prime Video, aiming to replicate the success its predecessor had.
Kept safe in a shelter for five years after surviving the fall of the comet that wiped out almost the entire world, John Garrity (Butler), his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their son (Roman Griffin Davis) begin to chafe at the routine of confinement and undertake daring escapes to secure provisions. Circumstances will force them to seek a new beginning, finding a fresh bunker to shelter in as they travel across Europe.
To assemble this new catastrophe sci‑fi blockbuster, with even bigger and grander doses of action and computer‑generated spectacle, director Ric Roman Waugh returns, a filmmaker who had boasted of being Butler’s most trusted partner. Here he leans into more dystopian risk while trying to sustain the family dynamic that gave the first Greenland its minimal emotional pull.
However, everything feels very disposable, even more so than in the previous installment that managed to work with a certain efficiency thanks to its gallery of clichés. Here he attempts to explore new territory and flesh out more internal conflicts within the family formed by Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin, but nothing manages to click at any moment and it all just becomes louder.
We barely see Butler trying to deploy that rugged charisma that had served him so well in keeping his mid‑sized blockbusters at a crude yet effective level. With $44 million at the box office, less than the first film even with the handicap of a pandemic, this shows that it has fallen short in every respect.
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