“We are receiving you.”

From Greenland.

While the world waits in excited expectation for the flyby of the Clarke comet, engineer John (Gerard Butler) is dreading hosting a comet watch party with his estranged wife, Ali (Morena Baccarin).  While shopping for the party that his son, Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd), requested, John receives an alert on his phone stating that his family has been selected for emergency shelter.  When a Clarke fragment destroys Tampa, completely missing the ocean where it was supposed to hit, global calamity ensues.  Everything becomes more chaotic when John and a small number of the population receive another alert telling them to get to a military base for a flight to safety.  Unsure what is happening, but scared to miss the flight, John and Ali leave their home and race to safety.  The family makes it to the military base in time, only to find that Nathan dropped his insulin in the car, so John runs back to get it, but when the soldiers realize that he’s diabetic, they refuse to let Nathan and Ali on a plane.  By the time John gets back with the medicine, the base is overrun by the terrified masses and he is separated from his family in the chaos.  Ali and Nathan begin making their way to her father, Dale (Scott Glenn), and she gets word to John for him to meet them there.  With no other transportation, Ali asks a couple for a ride north, while John is able to get hitch a ride on a truck headed for Canada and the private flights rumored to be heading to the safety of Greenland.  Surviving incredible challenges, all three family members are able to make it to Dale’s home, but when they learn that an extinction-size fragment is going to crash down the next day, John races with his family to catch the last flight to Canada so they can hopefully get to Greenland.

This post-apocalyptic thriller is filled with action and impressive special effects from start to finish.  While the film follows a familiar pattern for the disaster movie genre, the story is still engaging. Greenland is sure to keep viewers captivated with its pulse-pounding action.