Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
Geostorm is a largely formulaic disaster thriller that borrows heavily from genre predecessors without adding much of its own. The plot is riddled with clichés — a maverick scientist, a political conspiracy, a ticking clock — executed without meaningful tension or surprise. Acting is serviceable at best, with Gerard Butler and the supporting cast doing little to elevate the weak screenplay. Cinematography has some decent large-scale disaster set pieces and satellite imagery that provide visual spectacle, but it's largely CGI-heavy and unremarkable. Novelty is low; the film recycles disaster movie tropes and conspiracy thriller beats without a distinctive voice or fresh angle. The ending resolves predictably and conveniently, wrapping up with little earned emotional weight.