Greenland 2: Migration

The problem is that the human drama that made the original “Greenland” at least somewhat compelling is almost entirely absent here. Instead, Waugh and screenwriters Mitchell LaFortune and Chris Sparling have essentially cobbled together elements seemingly taken directly from the likes of “Children of Men,” “The Walking Dead,” “The Road” and the “28 Days/Weeks/Years” films, giving the proceedings an all-too-familiar feeling that grows tedious after a while. The interfamilial strife amongst the Garritys that gave the first film a little juice is gone, rendering them little more than blandly heroic (there is one attempt to introduce real drama between them that never quite hits the hoped-for mark). At the same time, new characters are barely introduced before being violently dispatched. Even the big-scale moments of destruction that peppered the first film are mostly kept to a minimum here, though the occasional tackiness of the special effects suggests that this might not have been such a loss after all.