Geostorm (2017)
When the network of satellites designed to control
the global climate start to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock
to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out
everything and everyone.
Director:
Dean DevlinStars:
When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a world wide net of satellites, surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After successfully protecting the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a world wide Geostorm can engulf the planet.
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 October 2017 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Geo-Tormenta See more »Company Credits
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2.35 : 1Did You Know?
Connections
Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Rosario Dawson/Eugenio Derbez/Sturgill Simpson/Bob Mould (2014)
I am pretty sure there is a snide political discourse lurking underneath all the loud inanities of Dean Devlin's mostly static Geostorm.
Geostorm, which sees a minor character
escape incredible cataclysm that probably killed thousands of innocent
Hong Kong citizens with the help of an environment-friendly electric car
only to end up dead by a speeding gas-guzzling coupe, has an American
politician angrily protesting how his great country has turned into the
world's open wallet, essentially pinpointing that the cause of the end
of the world is not nature's vengeance but American political
opportunism.
Devlin's film, with its pessimistic view of the heightened role of dysfunctional America in an impending apocalypse, feels like it half-heartedly aspires to be the first Trump-era disaster film.
Sadly, all possibilities of a Dr. Strangelove-style satire for the film is mired by the limits of what essentially is uninspired blockbuster film making.The film feels more like an Independence Day riff, except that this film's lionization of America is tempered by an overt distrust over prevailing institutions. Like Independence Day and
many of the big-budgeted but small-brained works of Devlin, the film is
a second-rate attempt to capitalize on the strange spectacle of
computer-generated versions of cities being destroyed within mere
seconds.
Given that all of this has been done before and with
less of the nonsensical verbosity that makes this film such a slog to
watch, Geostorm ends up magnifying the glaring faults and excesses of the genre rather than enriching it with current world relevance.
Geostorm's main storyline of the fate of
humanity hinging on two estranged brothers, a rough-on-the-edges
scientist (Gerard Butler) and a suit-wearing government type (Jim
Sturgess), learning to accept each other despite their differences in
world view tries to proliferate family values within the borders of
formula but it only ends up failing in the most embarrassing of ways.
The film is funny for all the wrong reasons.
Its drama is skewed and awkward, while its jokes are
all awfully timed, mostly spouted as needless banter in the middle of
life and death situations. There is a little bit of romance thrown in
for diversity but that romance is basically just an excuse to introduce a
physically strong female support to counter the film's other women who
are essentially there just to walk around the male leads.
The film is a discordant medley of mistakes.
It would have been a lot more enjoyable if Devlin,
instead of sanctifying his film with Hollywood-style sentimentality and
extravagant but needless fireworks, just surrendered to the fact the
film’s conceit when mixed with the juvenile intents of immature
characters will never work as a serious product.
FINAL RATING: 6/10 for the genre and 3/10 overall. Simply put, Geostorm is just mediocre entertainment. Also the know how of acting of the actors is not good enough for me to give it a better rating, since they do not have to be better, based on the story.
Thanks for reading and have fun watching movies.
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