Overview
- Lionsgate releases the Ric Roman Waugh–directed sequel in theaters today, returning Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis to the Garrity family roles.
- Set five years after the Clarke impact, the story begins with the Greenland bunker’s collapse and sends the family toward a rumored safe crater in southern France without revealing whether they find it.
- Early critics split: some applaud Butler’s steady anchor and tense set pieces, while others call the follow-up rote and less emotionally sharp than the original.
- Reviewers highlight striking sequences that include a partially submerged Liverpool, a dried-out English Channel crossed by a precarious rope ladder, and punishing storms and waves.
- Themes of migration as survival and the ethics of refuge recur throughout, with several reviews noting the film’s focus on human kindness and resource scarcity over politics; the film runs about 98 minutes and is rated PG-13.