Greenland 2: Migration (2026) – Review

2026   •   Lionsgate

Rated:  PG-13

Length:  1 hr  38min

Action ~ Adventure ~ Post-Apocalyptic ~ Thriller

Director:  Ric Roman Waugh

Writer:  Chris Sparling and Mitchell LaFortune.

Actors: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah, Gordon Alexander, Peter Polycarpou, William Abadie, and Tommie Earl Jenkins.

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Greenland 2: Migration (2026) – Review

Greenland 2: Migration picks up five years after Clarke the comet destroyed most of Earth and civilization in Greenland (2020). Earth has become an inhospitable planet with pop-up electromagnetic storms, lingering radioactive fallout, earthquakes and Clarke’s fragments that got caught in the atmosphere still dropping out of the sky un expectedly. The Garrity’s and the rest of Greenland’s Bunkers inhabitants have survived so far, but supplies are running low and Greenland itself is becoming unstable.

They are wrestling with the fact that their survival in the bunkers may have come to an end. There is a theory that the impact crater where Clarke hit in the Mediterranean Sea may hold the key to Humanity’s survival. That the area first hit is where life will first regenerate and start to flourish. They are thinking that that is where they need to go. But before they can get there…….well, I’m going to stop you right there. This is where I really started to have my doubts about Greenland 2: Migration.

Normally I like to write a spoiler free review, set up the movie (set the stage so to speak), and then tell you what about the performances, is it worth watching, etc. This one is going to be different. Greenland was a good movie, lots of good grounded family drama set against the backdrop of a very plausible natural disaster, with seemingly smart decisions and actions from Governments about how to survive and carry humanity forward after the fact. Great performances from Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roger Dale Floyd and minimal CGI.

Greenland 2: Migration is exactly the opposite, it is completely implausible and outright silliness trying to disguise itself as a serious disaster sequel to Greenland, problem is it is like the Emperor’s New Clothes, you can see right through them. The Family drama is gone, Nathan looks years older (a different actor), and the CGI is now like the effects of Clarke, it’s everywhere! I am just going to list the silliness as you experience it in the movie:

• The Impossible Aging: The film opens five years later, but Nathan has jumped from a 7-year-old child to a 15-year-old teenager. Even in a world of radioactive fallout, the math doesn’t add up. And he is a completely different kid personality wise, they should have re-used Roger Dale Floyd from the first film.
• The Vanishing Diabetes: Nathan’s Type 1 diabetes, the life-or-death stakes of the first movie, is essentially memory-holed. Aside from one line about “grabbing insulin,” he never needs an injection or his pump again. Seriously, I guess five years surviving an apocalypse in a bunker cures Type 1 Diabetes. 
• The “Scavenger” Engineer: Despite being a high-level structural engineer in a billion-dollar military bunker, John Garrity has to scavenge derelict ships for a basic pipe wrench. It’s as if the world’s most advanced shelter forgot to pack a toolbox. And how come John is out scavenging instead of the military personnel we saw in the bunker at the end of the first movie. He is a structural engineer wearing polo shirts, more comfortable on a golf course than a rescue scout in a disaster zone. Oh, and he is wearing a radiation suit and checking constantly for radiation, but for the remainder of the movie, it is ok to not wear a mask or suit and the air is fine! “Come on in boys!”
  
• The Drifting “Bullseye”: After their bunker collapses, they escape on a lifeboat and drift across the Atlantic. Well, actually they survive a major earthquake that destroys the bunker, make it to a lifeboat after fighting off the other survivors, and then survive a gigantic tsunami triggered by said earthquake, without even getting wet!?!? THEN Miraculously, they thread the 12-mile needle between Ireland and Scotland and land exactly in Liverpool. Wait though...to be clear they missed Ireland and Scotland completely, then manage to get through the North Channel which is only 12 miles wide, miss The Isle Of Man (which is thirty miles long and directly between the North Channel and Liverpool) NEVER HITTING LAND UNTIL LIVERPOOL! It is apparently the most talented drifting boat in history!
• The Vertical Flood: Liverpool is submerged under several stories of water, but nearby houses and buildings sit on “dry land” just meters away, defying every law of how water and displacement work.
• The Dry English Channel: In a direct contradiction to the flooded Irish Sea, the English Channel is now a dry, windswept desert even though these two bodies of water are connected, seriously! They are literally right around the corner from each other….
• The “Goofy” Rope Bridge: Supposedly, the English Channel is dry because a massive tectonic fault crack opened along the seabed, effectively draining the water into a deep subterranean chasm. This created the “wasteland” chasm that the Garrity family must cross via unstable bridges and rope ladders. Somehow a few survivors managed to string up rope and extension ladders across it? The physics of crossing a miles-deep tectonic rift with hardware store equipment is laughable. The wind alone at that depth and scale would be whipping those ladders like ribbons. Silliness!
• The “Convenient” Fuel: Five years into the apocalypse, John finds a Land Rover, turns the key, and it roars to life. Realistically, gasoline degrades into useless sludge after 12 months, making any “fresh” gas a miracle.
• The Promised Crater: The movie ends with the family reaching a “lush and protected” sanctuary inside the actual comet impact crater in France. In a world of radiation storms and tsunamis, this impact site is somehow a lush, verdant garden of Eden with fresh water and trees. To believe this, you have to ignore that an impact powerful enough to end the world would leave that spot a molten, lifeless wasteland for centuries, not a shimmering oasis. And in ONLY FIVE YEARS NO LESS!

Well….that was indeed a bash-fest, but it was warranted. Sequels are notorious for being less than and these days it seems like studios are desperate. If a movie showed great promise and made money, “quick let’s make a sequel”. Completely ignoring what made the first movie plausible and good. Greenland 2: Migration is another victim of Sequelitis, better left undone I say. Travel the wasteland of Greenland 2: Migration at your own risk!

Final Verdict: A disaster in every sense of the word!

Greenland 2: Migration (2026) – Review by Bobby @ Streaming Movie Night.

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