Greenland 2: Migration

Not as Good as the First

After rewatching the first movie and immediately starting this one, it became clear that some things didn’t quite add up. While it may not be fully woke, there are certain elements that feel noticeably forced.

⚠ SPOILER ALERT ⚠

Even though the first movie follows a simple “get from point A to point B” structure (despite having other elements mixed in), there was never a pause for reflection to really explore the romantic relationship between the father and the mother.

In this sequel, we suddenly see Morena Baccarin’s character -with no real explanation of her background or work history- sitting in a chair in the main decision-making room. At the same time, the protagonist from the previous movie Gerard Butler (whose profession we do know) is out searching for spare parts, risking his life alone, also with very little explanation. While that is clearly a narrative device and helps justify the father’s health condition, the real issue is how it’s handled in the film later.

In the first movie, that kind of "moments" felt somewhat plausible and were occasionally resolved using a “just in time” approach. Here, they overdo it and lean on it constantly, which ends up lowering the overall quality of the movie.

Bottom line: it’s not on the same level as the first one, and while the woke elements aren’t obvious at first glance, there’s a small dose of them injected in a very roundabout and forced way.

I'm actually shocked this has a sequel. The first was a low budget disaster movie that bombed at the theater so 6 years later the triple the budget and try again. Really? For the positives the FX at least look pretty good in this one and the acting is decent. However the writing is so incompetently bad this has to have been an A.I script, nobody can write something this utterly stupid on purpose. Woke aspects are too much DEI casting choices and obvious pushing the women better than men b.s.

Spoilers for the first 40 minutes.....

So to start it's only been 5 years and they are already opening up the bunker for outside excursions. One of these missions is the father going out alone on a gathering mission. He was specifically selected because he's a structural engineer and can assist in rebuilding. Why would you be risking sending him out on something like that. He goes out in a full EVO suit then just casually
takes his gear off and exposes himself to the environment only to go back for a decontamination wash as soon as he's back inside. We then go back in the bunker to the group of decision makers and leaders. There are a lot of DEI casting choices on display in general throughout the bunker and the movie itself. The leadership council is made up of men and women however the men mostly just sit there silently while the females talk and make decisions with the lone white male to speak up is
clearly bad. One of the most vocal of the council is the wife. Why is she even on the council? She has no qualifications and is only there because she's the wife of the structural engineer. Realistically there would of been people in place probably military to lead the bunker and keep order not a bunch of randoms. They have enough supplies to last only a year (great planning) but have stretched it to 5 years and are almost out. Oddly enough nobody is malnourished, they are all clean and showering with clean clothes and electricity is being wasted in every scene. They then decide to risk sending a rescue group out to a distress
beacon to bring in yet more survivors to feed and house not knowing if they may have radiation poisoning or some other illnesses therefore endangering the entire bunker. The white male is bad for opposing this but is overruled by the 'good' idiot females. At this point there has been several instances of the movie trying to explain impossible environmental plotlines away by simply saying 'for reasons we don't understand'. Can you get any lazier. The idiot kid who by the way suddenly appears to no longer be diabetic as it's never mentioned or shown even though that was the major plot device from the first movie, has been sneaking out of the bunker to go outside. How the hell is that possible, in an underground bunker with one one giant blast door entrance? Is nobody watching it? Are there no alarms if it opens?
WTF? Anyway the escape the bunker after disaster and just conveniently find an entire fleet of lifeboats washed up on shore right in front of them. Undamaged, fully functioning, fueled and with a weeks worth of food and water on board. How nice. They wash up in Liverpool with what appears to be hundreds if not thousands of perfectly fine people inhabiting it, and a fully functioning military unit as well. This unit recognizes some badge they are supposed to have to allow passage. Wait, what badges and when the hell was that a thing?
They have fully functioning vehicles and no problem with fuel. Remember, we were told the surface of the earth was burning at 900 degrees with 1000ft tsunamis after the asteroid hit. At this point I am now feeling myself getting dumber every second this is on so I'm out at 40 minutes. Where the first movie required you to turn your brain off and just watch it, this requires you to get a lobotomy first.