Review of Geostorm (2017) by Stuart M — 05 May 2018
This film was a lot better than I'd expected it to be. It followed all the typical disaster movie cliches but it did something with them and gave us some interesting environments as well. Gerard Butler surprisingly spends the whole film on the station.
This means two things: one, he's never on the front lines running away from the disasters like you might expect him to be (his brother occasionally fills that role). And two, the film doesn't build itself around running away from absurd disaster sequences.
Which isn't to say the film doesn't have them. They're just populated with random faces we don't care about. I have to say that this lessens the feeling of threat, but I'd rather have that than another boring 2012 where our hero happens to be everywhere at once just before it explodes.
Tedious. This time we get to spend most of our time in space solving interesting engineering challenges. The conspiracy is half-baked and insane, as expected, but other than that the film generally achieves what it sets out to.
This review of Geostorm (2017) was written by Stuart M on 05 May 2018.
Geostorm has generally received mixed reviews.
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