Tense Disaster Film by Gerard Butler

Ric Roman Waugh’s exciting new film, Greenland, by Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin, from a screenshot written by Chris Sparling, now available on Amazon Prime Video in the UK

The STX-sponsored film, with a limited budget of $ 35 million (compared to the $ 120 million for Geostorm), it was one of the few to be released to theaters in many countries across Europe in 2020, costing $ 47.8 million more than the in-box office. national conditions. The film did surprisingly well in France, for example, despite being shown in fewer theaters. The film was released online in the US in December 2020, and is now available in the UK on Amazon Prime Video from 5 February.

Greenland is a terrifying catastrophic film about a family fight for survival as a giant comet makes its way to destroy all life on Earth. John Garrity, his wife Ali and son Nathan go on a perilous journey to find safe shelter. Along the way, the family will experience the best and worst of humanity as the countdown to a global apocalypse approaches.

Greenland It’s an exciting roller coaster ride without even the slightest hiccups, even with its long-running plot twists and turns, that make you want to see it on a big screen – the kind of movie that makes you eat. wildly your popcorn. in the first ten minutes when the action starts, that is how tight it is.

Greenland following John Garrity (Gerard Butler), a structural engineer, who has moved out of the family home for a reason that will only be revealed much later in the film. When the film begins, John moves back as the family prepares to invite their neighbors for a barbecue. As Nathan, John’s son (played by Roger Dale Floyd) throws himself in his arms, it’s clear that John wants to keep things up with his wife Ali (played by Morena Baccarin).

When Ali sends John on an errand to the supermarket before their guests arrive, John receives a presidential warning from the government, warning to prepare with his family for an impending evacuation. The warning reappears while their neighbors are at home, all watching the news on TV about the upcoming comet Clarke. This time, the message from the government provides guidance that he and his family have been selected for evacuation and now have to go to an airport to take him to a shelter in an undisclosed location.

As a piece of the comet falls unexpectedly in Florida, sending powerful waves that bring down Gerard Butler ‘s character, it becomes clear that they have to go to that shelter, even if they haven’t. none of their friends and neighbors the president’s message as well.

On the plane, however, John unexpectedly finds a separation from his wife and son. From there, John’s perilous journeys, as well as Ali and Nathan, find each other. Along the way, the two find themselves in difficult situations, reflecting the extent to which some are willing to survive.

Greenland is a well-structured disaster film, right from the start. Introducing these three main characters, shows the difference between Ali and John, with John wanting to sort things out between them, and their loving relationship with their seven-year-old son. year Nathan, who is diabetic, the film sets the main dynamics of the storyline to unfold. The following is a tight and gripping film that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

What makes this film work so well is that it is not a spectacle-dependent disaster film. This is a character-based film, following a typical family journey facing a global apocalypse. It gets the audience to care about each character, John, Ali and Nathan, and how they find each other and survive. Every obstacle in their path, whether it’s traffic tags on the highway or a looting disorder, makes any spectator easily identifiable with this typical family that struggle to survive in an upcoming apocalypse.