The first Greenland movie was one of my sleeper favorites. It was a refreshing take on the disaster stories that took a lot of chances, and they paid off.
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You have the same director (Ric Roman Waugh) and the same writer (Chris Sparling), along with the addition of Mitchell LaFortune. In Greenland 2: Migration, it feels like the story jumps from one manufactured adventure to another. The few times the story gets it right are drowned out by the innumerable times the story tries to jump the shark.
Unrealism
Greenland 2: Migration seems to go out of it’s way to unnecessarily bend realism beyond the breaking point.
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Here is the problem that I think plagues a lot of disaster movies: the writers don’t actually understand the basics of science, and so they just make shit up. Which is fine, if you’re working in a fantasy world. But when you have a disaster movie, on this planet, you need to follow the rules. And I can hear the writers saying, “Yeah, but we wanted to bend the rules to improve the dramatic landing of the story.” To which I would say, “But did you?”
You can make a scientifically accurate asteroid impact story without being unscientific. And to those who want to write their scripts without the shackles of realism, I would say: constraints make a story better, not worse.
You can find plenty of issues that would make large parts of the planet uninhabitable without resorting to some sort of radiation. Where did the radiation come from? That’s not how asteroid impacts work. Yes, there would be lots and lots of dust. But it wouldn’t be any more radioactive than the Earth’s crust is anyway.
And OMG, no, there would not be those crazy storms that pop up unexpectedly. That’s pure fantasy.
And aside from that, the movie depicts everyone shooting guns like it’s a modern-day battlefield. In this post-impact world, supply lines would be obliterated. Who’s making all of the ammo, and how are they getting it to the battlefield? To say nothing of the countless civilians shooting off ammo like it doesn’t matter. The Last of Us depicted this really well. Ammo would be a precious resource that would have to be recycled. You’re not going down to the local ammo store to get more.
And lastly, no, the crater would not be a lush green paradise. It would be a molten pool of rock for centuries. Just a few weeks ago, I was standing on the remnants of a lava flow that happened four years ago and we could boil water from the heat coming out of the cracks. And this was from a lava flow that would be a millionth the size of a crater impact of that size.
But what about Iceland?
The one funny thing that I appreciated about the movie was that it was mentioned twice that Iceland is gone. The irony is that the movie was filmed in Iceland.
Grade: D+
There are no extra scenes during, or after, the end credits of Greenland 2: Migration.
| Rated: | (PG-13) NA |
| Genres: | Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
| USA release date: | 2026-01-07 |
| Movie length: | |
| Starring: | |
| Director: | Ric Roman Waugh |
| Writer(s): | Chris Sparling, Mitchell LaFortune |
| Language: | en |
| Country: | US |
Plot
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
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