One of the best, and an underrated, end of the world-disaster films I’ve watched. It’s about a planet-killer sized asteroid hurdling towards Earth, the Greenland, and no one was ready for it.

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garrity’s experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

Characters

• Gerard Butler was, as always, did an excellent performance, he displayed fear, desperation, and dread of what was to come; every emotion he had was portrayed yet still able to be the protector for his family.
• The mother’s (Morena Baccarin) performance was very moving, more so on the part of the abduction, she displayed her emotions on the screen through screams of pain and loss, it was gut-wrenching, and seeing her walk around with no sense of purpose and have died inside was unbearable.

Personal and World-ending scale problems

The series of disasters shown was one after the other, from giant earthquakes opening up the land, to flaming shards of asteroids raining down on them, I could only imagine what it feels like getting hit from behind with one of those. Aside from natural disasters occurring, they also had to deal with desperate people as well, it’s kill or be killed, and it’s honestly horrifyingly accurate in that scenario. It affected me emotionally with the people that were involved.

Conclusion

The way they showed the scale of the disaster was not as large as how they did it in “2012”, this was mostly shown from their perspective, some aerial shots, mostly on land, but not as large of a scale. They were able to answer that issue though through news reports that were shown throughout the film. A bit different on the genre, but I’d recommend The Sadness any day.