‘Greenland 2: Migration’ movie review: Gerard Butler does all the heavy lifting in lame sequel

Watching Greenland 2: MigrationIt almost feels as if you’re in a time capsule watching all those big disaster movies of the ’90s in single-screen theaters that looked like palaces with velvet curtains and chandeliers.

This was the time of slides that said “chatterers be quiet” and where popcorn, cheese sandwiches or curry puffs would arrive hot in aluminum trays at intervals.

It was a time of radioactive lizards with eyes as big as domes, comets, rising seas and cold-sensitive aliens. But once you realize that it’s been 30 years since the world lost its innocence to a cruel virus, you’re less inclined to give a lazily made sequel that much leeway.

greenland In 2020, Gerard Butler played world-weary action hero-turned-Family Man-tech expert John Garrity, a critical and commercial success. A comet named Clarke (named after science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke) was about to collide with Earth and end life as we know it.

At the end of the film, after a series of tests, John ends up in a bunker in Greenland with his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and insulin-dependent son Nathan (Roman Griffin Davis takes over from Roger Dale Floyd) just as a large chunk of the comet hits Earth.

Five years later, Earth is still not a particularly safe place due to earthquakes, radiation, tsunamis, and other fun things that affect survival. Due to his training as a structural engineer, John is now a scout, as well as repairing bunkers. At a meeting, there is a discussion as food supplies dwindle and a decision has to be made on whether or not to respond to a call for help.

While the mean army man rationalizes that they can’t feed anyone any more, Dr. Amina (Amber Rose Revah) asks to put the matter to a vote and when a snowcat is sent to fetch the refugees, an earthquake destroys the bunker.

Garrity and the others head for the coast, fight for the lifeboats, head to England without food, water or fuel and then head to France where Clark Crater is a new Eden where the air is fresh and the land fertile.

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Greenland 2: Migration Suffers from a severe lack of logic, even of the filmy kind. How is it that everyone looks well fed and well-groomed, while we are repeatedly told that they are running out of food? Given the way people are firing at each other, how are bullets still being fired? How are the vehicles still running on fuel?

Why are bandits or rebels fighting in an area controlled by the army? And of course the bridge over the English Channel, now a dry wasteland, would collapse just as our brave party was crawling away.

Every time a crisis hits, it seems like the makers have gotten bored and decided to move on. So despite running out of fuel, the lifeboat heads for Liverpool, and Nate’s diabetes is reduced to “packing all the insulin”. Still, it’s fun to see the always-reliable butler doing his nostalgic routine and one can say the same about this haphazardly conceived sequel.

Greenland 2: Migration is currently playing in theaters