Gerard Butler returns in Greenland 2: Migration

Gerard Butler stars in Greenland 2: Migration, a sequel directed by Ric Roman Waugh that follows John Garrity (Butler), his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their son Nathan (Roman Griffin Davis) as they flee a Greenland bunker and head to southern France after a catastrophic earthquake.

Five years earlier, a killer comet caused a near-mass extinction, leaving irradiated air and barren land; the Garritys set out in search of a rumored bucolic crater. Robert Daniels writes that the film is a notable step up from the first, with the family’s traversal across the North Atlantic and dashes past marauding bandits in Europe providing real human stakes.

The review notes the sequel mixes intense set pieces — comet shards trapped in the atmosphere that become fiery projectiles, fierce lightning storms and volatile tectonic plates — with moments of human connection when the Garritys encounter Denis Laurent (William Abadie) and his daughter Camille (Nelia Valery de Costa). Daniels says Butler’s steady presence adds poignancy to a spectacle-obsessed film and that the story shifts its pandemic subtext to a clearer, albeit dated, post-Covid message.

Greenland 2: Migration is rated PG-13 for some strong violence, bloody images and action, and runs 1 hour 38 minutes. The film is in theaters, and these details come from Robert Daniels’s review in The New York Times.

Key Topics

Culture, Greenland, Southern France, Gerard Butler, Ric Roman Waugh, Morena Baccarin