Overview
- Lionsgate releases the PG-13 sequel on Friday, January 9, with a runtime of about 98 minutes.
- Directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis, the film picks up five years after the comet strike.
- After a Greenland bunker is destroyed, the Garrity family journeys across a devastated Europe toward a rumored safe zone in southern France.
- Critics split between calling the sequel an effective, emotionally grounded thriller and dismissing it as dull or rote compared with the 2020 original.
- Reviews highlight striking European locales and tense sequences—especially a hazardous rope-bridge crossing—alongside themes of migration and post‑apocalyptic humanism.