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Gerard Butler as John Garrity, Morena Baccarin as Allison Garrity, and Roman Griffin Davis as Nathan Garrity star in a scene from the movie "Greenland 2: Migration." The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.(OSV News photo/Courtesy of Lionsgate)

Movie Review: ‘Greenland 2: Migration’


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NEW YORK (OSV News) – As its title suggests, the survival drama “Greenland 2: Migration” (Lionsgate) sets the three main characters featured in its 2020 predecessor on another journey. Unfortunately, their odyssey through ruined cities and a war zone is far less interesting than their earlier expedition and eventually turns into a dull slog for viewers.

Five years after taking refuge from a civilization-ending comet strike in the territory of the title, the trio — dad John (Gerard Butler), mom Allison (Morena Baccarin) and now-teen son Nathan (Roman Griffin Davis) — are forced to leave the bunker where they’ve been living. The ongoing effects of the cataclysm include earthquakes, one of which destroys the structure.

Where to go? Rumor has it that, within the huge crater in Southern France caused by the largest space fragment to hit Earth, nature has begun to renew itself in a way not experienced anywhere else on the planet. So the family sets off for this potential paradise.

The once-estranged John and Allison now enjoy a happy marriage and, together with Nathan, form a strong family unit. As helmed by returning director Ric Roman Waugh, however, their latest adventures are not the stuff of gripping entertainment.

Viewers of faith, moreover, may find their hackles raised by a brief exchange between father and son. When John recites part of the familiar Irish blessing that begins “May the road rise up to meet you” over the recently-filled grave of one of the clan’s temporary traveling companions, Nathan wonders aloud why people pray at funerals.

In response, John observes that it’s a tradition, like putting coins on the eyes of a corpse to bribe the ferryman (presumably Charon transiting the River Styx). Nathan then asks if people continue such a custom even if they don’t believe in heaven, and John affirms they do.

While the comparison of prayer to the Almighty with a superstitious pagan practice is unwelcome, Mitchell LaFortune and Chris Sparling’s script does not take a definite stance on whether or not an afterlife exists. Rather, their dialogue merely notes that many people today no longer think it does.

That Celtic benediction makes a comeback in a later scene. Yet the meaning of this repetition remains ambivalent.

LaFortune and Sparling also work in a climactic plot development that parallels a famous event in the Old Testament. Moviegoers will have to endure quite a bit of tedious wandering through the wilderness, though, before they reach this echo of the Exodus.

The film contains mostly stylized combat violence and gunplay with some gore, a couple of profanities, several milder oaths and occasional crude language. The OSV News classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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