Greenland (2020)

Hello guys, I'm Charisma Mufadilah. I just finished watching the movie with the title 'Greenland'. This apocalypse-themed film whose trailer appeared convincingly and solidly turned out to be not as good as originally thought.

The film itself follows the story of John Garrity (Gerard Butler), who works as a building engineer. He and his wife, Allison (Morena Baccarin) have just separated and occasionally visit their house to visit their only child, Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd).

Soon John and his family would be having barbecues with his family at home and inviting his friends over. And when he was shopping for the event, he received a warning call from the government requiring him and his family to be evacuated to an unknown bunker.

John himself did not know what had happened until he saw the TV news showing a piece of Clarke's comet falling to Earth and causing a shock wave that was felt to John's house. A warning message for John appears again on the TV, but not everyone gets the message. John's neighbor, who was at home, was not at all selected to enter the bunker. Only selected people are entitled to be invited, and John himself with his wife and child finally left for the air base to be collected to the promised bunker. The journey to that place was not as easy as imagined.

Apocalypse-themed films like this have indeed been made a lot. Call it 'Deep Impact' (1998), 'Armageddon' (1998), '2012' (2009), each of which has its own style and uniqueness.

In 'Greenland' itself, we will see how John's family is trying hard to reach a place called Greenland (which the funny thing is that he just found out from someone while looking for his wife).

Unfortunately the script of this film can be said to be bad. Catastrophic events that should appear destructive and change the way we act, in 'Greenland' are instead shown passively, as if nothing major is happening.

The flow of the story itself is actually not very interesting, it tends to be monotonous and the ending is easy to guess. Let's compare it to its competitors, which, although they sell a lot of CGI, the plot is still interesting to follow until it's finished.

On the one hand, 'Greenland', directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen), seems to want to be different, by not selling CGI, the impact of which is that this film feels very 'smelling' of drama rather than sci-fi. It makes the visualization of the disaster itself feel awkward, because it's only fragments. The story is also very cliché, and that substantial weakness changes our perspective as the audience in responding to this film. In my opinion, the rating of this film is 7.5/10

In conclusion, 'Greenland' is not entirely entertaining. Instead, we are invited to see how the interaction of John's family, who is currently fragile, is trying to save themselves from the disaster that happened. That's what Roman wanted to show, and not the disaster that was happening. And as usual, Gerald Butler and Morena Baccarin can play this husband and wife character well.