Greenland Migration is not better than the first one but its still pretty decent if you got time to kill and do not mind watching Gerard Butler spend 90 minutes running from lightning bolts, lava and every other natural disaster the planet can throw at him. The whole thing picks up like five or six years after the first movie ended where the Garity family had to escape the bunker in Greenland because supplies are running out and the planet is still a complete mess with earthquakes, volcanoes, huge ass tsunamis and these crazy lightning strikes happening everywhere and after a big earthquake that probably totally destroy the bunker they were in, had to get out considering the amount of radiation and the chaos that was to escape along with the rest of the people in the bunker who turn wild, they decide to head across Europe looking for a new place to live which sounds easy enough until you remember the whole world is still falling apart around them and people are dying left and right from radiation sickness and the rest of the world that turn survivor mode. What I liked about Migration is the same thing I liked about the first one, it does not feel like one of those brainless action movies were things just blow up for two hours and you do not care about anybody on screen, you actually give a damn about this family trying to survive and there is real tension between them about how to stay alive when nobody knows what the hell they are doing, the kid is now like 15 or 16 instead of being 10 years old so he is acting out and doing stupid teenager shit which causes problems because his parents are trying to keep him alive while also dealing with all these disasters trying to kill them every five minutes, I do have to agree there are moments where things are just too convenient although keep always in mind this is not a Nolan level type of movie.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14850054/
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The special effects look pretty solid most of the time showing how destroyed everything is, with these big wide shots of one person standing in a wasteland with chaos happening everywhere around them, altho there was one scene where they had to cross this canyon and it looked fake AF, you could tell it was all green screen and it took me out of it for a minute but everything else looked good enough, luckily they didnt spend that much time on this particular area. My biggest issue with this movie is how clean everyone looks at the end of the movie, like these people just went through absolute hell for weeks maybe even months traveling across a destroyed continent and Gerard Butler comes out looking like he just stepped out of the shower consider then even went through a fkn war zone literally in the trenches, also how most people die because a human shot them, I would prefer if more people die from the natural disasters which makes zero sense and really bothered me because come on if you are going to make a post apocalyptic movie at least make people look like they been through some actual shit. The ending also felt rushed and kind of anticlimactic to me, they finally reach this crater that everybody has been talking about the whole movie and I wanted more closure or at least a bigger payoff after everything they went through but it just kind of stops and thats it, like the movie ran out of money or something and they had to wrap it up real quick.
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What works in Migrations favor is the pacing because the whole thing is only about an hour and 30 minutes so it never drags or feels boring, they also kept moving the hole time and never stop in the same place for over a night, you care about what happens to the family even tho some of there decisions are pretty dumb, the disasters look brutal when people get taken out by the elements and you feel bad for them, but yeah the first movie was definitely better because it had more focus on how society collapses and people turn on each other when everything goes to hell instead of just being a road trip movie with some explosions and earthquakes thrown in, on this movie people are already settle in, when they got to London you could tell how society was still standing, a bit savage but still there were merchants, people selling food so the story never shows the emptiness of the surface after the explosions. Gerard Butler is doing his usual thing here where he plays the tough dad who will do anything to protect his family and he does a good job with it even tho the script does not give him much to work with, Morena Baccarin who plays his wife Allison seems a little off in this one like her performance feels weird and I could not figure out if it was the writing or just her acting choices but something felt strange about her character at time feels like she was not as worry as John for the future she was more like wing it and see whats the outcome, the kid who plays their son Nathan is fine I guess but he aged like three extra years somehow because the math does not add up from the first movie to this one but it really didnt bother me that much, this is not a very efficient movie at keeping the facts straight so keep that in consideration.
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One thing that really bugged me about the whole movie is how these people still have provisions after five years in a bunker that was only stocked for two years, like where are they getting food and water and medicine from, Nathan was loaded in medicine, are they still manufacturing weapons and insulin and all this other stuff because the movie never explains it and just expects you to go along with it. Also there is this scene where they meet this old lady in London who is taking care of people in a nursing home and she has wine and food and a car with gas in it and I was just sitting there thinking how the fuck does she have all this stuff five years after the world ended, specially when they constantly keep saying the more they move into Europe the more dangerous is, it makes no sense at all but the movie does not care and just keeps moving forward. They also run into this French guy later on who has solar panels and a car battery powering his whole house and he is taking care of his wife who has radiation sickness and I guess that part made more sense but still the logistics of how people are surviving in this world do not add up and it kept distracting me from the actual story.
Overall I would give Greenland Migration a 6.5 out of 10 because even tho it has problems the movie is still entertaining enough and the disasters look cool and you root for the family to make it even when they do dumb stuff, its not as good as the first one and the ending sucks but if you liked the original or you just want to watch Gerard Butler fight nature for 90 minutes then go see it, just do not expect anything groundbreaking or super memorable because this feels like a cash grab sequel that nobody really asked for but its solid enough to not be a complete waste of time. The movie tries to add some emotional weight with Gerard Butlers character getting radiation sickness and knowing he is dying which gives him a ticking clock situation but it does not hit as hard as it should because the script rushes through everything and does not let moments breath, by the time he actually dies at the end you kind of saw it comming from a mile away because anyways he told his wife the moment he was caughfing blood and it just feels like they checked a box on the disaster movie list instead of earning that emotional moment, and what about the fkn crater what a weak as CGI I was expecting something more grounded with a small town int it. If you got free time and want some disaster movie fun then yeah check it out, this is a good movie for streaming so dont expect anything groundbreaking.
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