Greenland

CatchPlay | Release Date (Streaming): December 18, 2020

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 128 Ratings

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Alaskaair7Mar 4, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I can't for the life of me believe such an educated couple have such a dumb clueless babyfied 7 year old boy who acts like a 2 year old girl thanks to clueless mom and the poor day trying to babysit both if them while the mom complains about everything he does while she coddles the boy who can't think for himself to sVave his lufe… Expand

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NigelphilpMay 26, 2021

Absolutely awful acting, very disjointed storyline with lots of pointless scenes. A monumental waste of 2 hours, would not recommend watching

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WhatIsWrongDec 18, 2020

If you've been spoiled, over years, by an entertainment industry that aims to strip any substance of their movies, the plot, characters and their development, perspectives on our existence in extreme circumstances or any meaningful insightIf you've been spoiled, over years, by an entertainment industry that aims to strip any substance of their movies, the plot, characters and their development, perspectives on our existence in extreme circumstances or any meaningful insight into the relationship of life and death, loss and pain, morals, freedom, love and salvation in the face of existential threats... then you might stand to watch this movie till the end. If you've not yet given up on cinema as an art form, we suggest you avoid going anywhere near this movie, much like this entire production avoided any substance that would even faintly move us in any way, in fact much less than that, it didn't even satisfy our already stripped down expactation of merely decent CGI and grand pictures. We're happy to go into detail on what bothered us the most. As that pertains to every single aspect of the movie, we'll just list them in order of how much they disappointed our hearts, insulted our minds and overall tortured our soul.

The plot is overall inconsistent, feels rushed and dumbed down, unrealistic and without any depth, rather the opposite, exaggerated and reductive and with it, reducing the characters and the entire dialogue down to a 10 year old's skillset of writing a (disaster) movie; leaving one to question with how many movies an industry can burry its claim to be an art form and stop putting money where it doesn't add any quality, but put up a facade any idiot can see through. I pray for our cast, as we would spirale into depression upon reading the script and try to build a character from nothing through merely method acting and emotions, which in the end failed miserably and left us unattached and almost in a continously cringy state. Any role next to our main cast (the family) was so shallow, that we could only laugh at the irony of them being killed or never seen again after a minute of being either of use for the plot or for a cheap shot at the darkness of human interaction in crisis.

Being rushed through a shallow, colourless story, leaving no room for any depth of character throughout the movie, there was no chance to feel for them. Paired with continous inconsistencies, you're left more annoyed by their hardship than anything else, as they added no quality to human development and of what it means to be human in the time of crisis. (SPOILER)They missed their only chance when Butler killed another man in self defense being left in awe, because the entire scene was so random, the fight started on such an insultingly dumb premis and dialogue and ended on a shot of the only useful side character being killed immediatly after giving Butler the most crucial information out of nowhere.

Pertaining to everything else: We are no experts. Our minimum requirement for a movie in general, is not feeling like our life's time was stolen, happy to feel even slightly entertained without having to give up on every standard.

We were shocked, reading the reviews of the so called critics. Even if each and every one of them were Gerard Butlers closest friends or better yet, family, we would still say you failed him, by being this dishonest about the movie. We cannot believe how low the bar has fallen even for movies of which we expect close to nothing.… Expand

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max1cMar 20, 2021

The most astounding Hollywood propaganda film. The USSR would be proud. Enjoy.

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freedomgirlFeb 13, 2021

Make no mistake, the environmental apocalypse that you would think is the main focus of the movie is not. That's third on the list of this movies intention. First, it's values-preachy, cliché family drama with the Dad attempting to atone forMake no mistake, the environmental apocalypse that you would think is the main focus of the movie is not. That's third on the list of this movies intention. First, it's values-preachy, cliché family drama with the Dad attempting to atone for his cheating ways, with far too much time spent on predictable and shallow family drama dialogue. Second, the movie is a woke vehicle filled with contrived, virtue signaling clichés. Literally every brown skinned person is "good" and "honorable" and the white folks are nothing but morally corrupt hillbillies. And then there's the meteors falling that you wish would blow the whole lot of them to hades. I truly fear that such terrible filmmaking is becoming the new standard, where authentic character development, good dialogue and subtlety that allows the viewer to feel engaged and THINK, are dead. Instead, audience is treated like morons that need to have thoughtless clichés beaten over their head so they "get it". I recently saw "The Sound of Metal" and cried because it had been so long since I saw a thoughtful, genuine movie. More of that please and less of this movies' mindless awfulness.… Expand

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YorkManFeb 8, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 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.. Nine(!!) months for the particulates in the atmosphere to dissipate? Nine months after a Nine mile wide chunk of rock hits Western Europe at several thousand miles per hour! Even the grossly stupid must have realised such an impact would have caused a Nuclear Winter that would have lasted decades, if not centuries!… Expand

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TomHugJan 16, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wow, I hate to slam new movie releases in the midst of a pandemic, but this movie deserves to be slammed. Unsympathetic characters making preposterous decisions to support a reheated plot borrowed from the movie "2012". Spoiler alert: The 2128 mile final fight to safety takes place using a Cessna Skycourier with a max range of ~ 1000 miles. The "1" point is for a realistic portrayal of how quickly society degrades and we all turn back into savages once we can no longer text each other.… Expand

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Satanski666Feb 15, 2021

I learned people are **** in real life, don't need to watch more of it in cheap family drama show. Boring, shallow and derivative.

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FopyxDec 21, 2020

A typical American disaster movie which always ends well. Garbage CGI, too much angels music and drama. Also the acting of the soldiers it's just too much to be real. It's just ****

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MastadorianMay 20, 2021

Decent plot, but literally every bad person is a bearded white guy with a southern accent, and every good person is non-white. It’s woke from end to end. Maybe the white characters represent the Hollywood sexual predator producers as they seeDecent plot, but literally every bad person is a bearded white guy with a southern accent, and every good person is non-white. It’s woke from end to end. Maybe the white characters represent the Hollywood sexual predator producers as they see themselves, but clearly they haven’t talked to a normal human in a few years.… Expand

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BroyaxSep 29, 2022

Le titre induit un peu en erreur (malgré le sous-titre français ‘le dernier refuge’), car Greenland n’est pas le pays vert… mais le Groenland ! il le deviendra sans doute à la faveur du réchauffement climatique… mais pas tout de suite. CeciLe titre induit un peu en erreur (malgré le sous-titre français ‘le dernier refuge’), car Greenland n’est pas le pays vert… mais le Groenland ! il le deviendra sans doute à la faveur du réchauffement climatique… mais pas tout de suite. Ceci étant posé, Butler et sa famille (et d’autres sélectionnées, triées sur le volet à ce qu’il paraît) doivent se magner le cul pour évacuer vers le Groenland !

Le film décrit assez bien la panique, l’urgence et le chaos de la catastrophe catastrophique mais nous sommes néanmoins régulièrement catastrophés devant d’abord un temps d’exposition trop long, puis par une guimauve ridicule et trop présente.

Les incohérences et les raccourcis sont aussi beaucoup trop nombreux et un manque de rythme se fait aussi sentir, régulièrement : on baille devant les péripéties et les clichés et franchement le diabète du gamin nous les casse très sévèrement (il parasite les trois quarts du film). En définitive, on finit cette daube en avance rapide, et même là, on a du mal.… Expand

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CyrusC4TJul 8, 2022

Very bad ending. Poor research. Don’t even understand how the world could have water settle down after over 1200ft of tsunami.

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