From quarantines to climate change to the Boogaloo Bois, it feels like we’re living in the midst of a real-life disaster movie.
So who, in that case, actually wants to go out and watch a disaster movie? And yet, Greenland, the latest action vehicle to feature Gerard Butler in raging midlife crisis mode, offers up the kind of doomsday Hollywood catharsis that the world perhaps needs.
It’s premise may be a bit second- or third-grade-ish — Butler has to save his family from a comet threatening to destroy all of humanity — but the gritty verisimilitude that the star and director Ric Roman Waugh bring to the table goes a long way in making this B-level blockbuster a timely and guilty pleasure.
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