Review of Greenland (2020) by Yorkman — 08 Feb 2021

Apocalyptic, end of the world stuff... Yawn!

I can take these kinds of movies if they are created and made simply to entertain, and aren't intended to be some moralistic pedantic 'togetherness conquers all' crap...

But that's exactly what this film is, one that asks the audience to get invested in characters who are bland and annoying, inside a narrative that (to anyone with even the slightest level of intellect) makes literally no sense.

It's par for the course, story-wise....

Mass fragment comet predicted to miss Earth instead, at the last moment, is skewed in our direction and predictions come in of an Extinction Level Event (ELE). Main characters (Husband, Wife and 7 year old (Diabetic) Son) are chosen to go to an airforce base for evacuation as husband is a high level civil engineer.

However, the son loses his Insulin in the car, forcing Husband to go back for it leaving Wife and Son at the base. But, Son's Diabetes was only very recently diagnosed and prevents wife/son from getting on plane.

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So, all three are tasked with going to wife's father's house... And from there to Canada to get a plane to Greenland where the military planes are heading...

Will they make it? Of course they do, but we have to spend 90+ minutes watching them do it.

The film isn't truly terrible, it barrels along at a steady enough pace. The problem is the aforementioned presupposition that everyone in the audience will simply believe the scientific nonsense the film requires them to.

Nothing makes sense and, above all, the ending is just ludicrous.

Most of the run-time of the film revolves around making sure husband brings along a three month supply of insulin... Thus, if the family come out of the bunker after nine months... Son should have been long dead, but of course he isn't! Also..