Geostorm (2017)

Director: Dean Devil

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia

When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.

I didn’t want to watch this because of all the bad publicity, but decided to give it a go to see for myself. If the plot wasn’t preposterous enough, the execution thereof compensated for that. All the character confrontations are perfectly in place according to American requirements, so it was predictable and annoying, to say the least.  The film was dramatic when it should have been sensitive, and lighthearted when it shouldn’t have been, with suspense so forced it was funny.

The visual effects seemed like a hurriedly developed video game, with no level of excitement. The characters are just not credible, and the casting even more so. I just did not believe any of the characters and honestly, just couldn’t care about any of them. There’s also the saved at the last second cliche. It looks like they were trying just too hard to make an exciting disaster film that they ruined it in the process. Or, on the contrary, maybe they just didn’t take it serious enough…

The film was also a box office bomb. Enough said.