Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Greenland
Shades of Chicken Little. The sky is falling, the sky is falling...
Estranged husband & structural engineer, John Garrity (Gerard Butler), desperately tries to get his wife & kid to a secret government sanctuary hidden underground somewhere in Greenland bunkers as a potential planet killing comet races towards Earth. The family spends a harrowing couple of days on their perilous journey. If you like over the top disaster films, you’ll probably have an exciting good time. Is it a bit contrived & far fetched? Yeah, but you kind of expect that from this genre & can choose to suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy the thrill ride. You might chuckle to yourself & just move on. You’ll see the best & worst of humanity as some desperate people panic & lose their sense of rational thought while others remain calm & helpful. At the heart of this film is the sense of family & doing what you must to protect it. Will mankind survive the apocalypse? If anything, this is a good temporary diversion from our current global pandemic.
Alien gives it 3 “fire in the skies” stars out of 4.
