2020 · thriller · adventure · action
Greenland
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh2h 0m2020
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
Our read: Greenland (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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