Review of Geostorm (2017) by Orlando O — 20 Oct 2017

A disaster film from the producer of Independence Day tries to bring an another blockbuster cgi fest with the global world at stake once again. Plot may be cheesy but I am thinking the film is not meant to be taken seriously and enjoyed for what it is such as a popcorn flick that is loud, big, and dumb visual effects action. It does check mark all those. But Geostorm is not as entertaining or exciting. Gerard Butler has been missing his marks with films lately from the terrible London Has Fallen and so on. Its basically Die Hard meets 2012. Gerard Butler is sent to space in a weather controlling space station that stops terrible weather around the world. And a virus in the system that has been planted by someone in the inside of the government or terrorists. So they can cause a geostorm which can cause a global threat with big storms hitting everywhere around the planet. From a rapid temperature decrease that will freeze a person in matter of seconds. To huge tsunamis. To several tornadoes. And heat waves.

Yes, the plot is cheesy. Not meant to be taken seriously. But the action sequences were not as fun as it is trying to be. The visual effects were terrible. For a big budget film. The budget must have went somewhere cause the cgi was bad. The acting was terrible, and the script is filled with laughable dialogue. Gerard Butler plays Jake, an engineer that is recruited by his younger brother Max (Jim Sturgess) to help fix the satellite. While Max's love interest Sarah (Abbie Cornis) works for the secret service and is on a trail of a conspiracy that someone has planted the virus in the space station.

The action sequences were horrible. Its weird to see a smart car outrun a giant earth quake with the ground breaking away from the heat wave. And avoiding buildings that are being knocked down like dominos. Plus seeing all these explosions is filled with obvious cgi that looked too fake.

The acting was not any better. Gerard Butler is a great guy but placed in a horrible script. The dialogue is terrible. And cheesy.

Overall, Geostorm is a bad disaster film. It is a disaster with its direction, bad script, boring acting, and terrible visual effects. The action sequences were not exciting.

I rate the film 2 out of 5 stars. I do not recommend the film unless you want to enjoy a cheesy disaster movie. Otherwise, I ll say wait until it's a rental.