THE FILM

Natural disaster films will always have a special place in my heart. Most of the time, they are over-the-top, ridiculous, and never make a lick of sense. Still, there is something entertaining in watching giant cities fall due to an alien invasion, a giant lizard, or is with the case of 'Geostorm', extreme weather. No matter what the premise, these films usually have the same intentions and plot structure, which usually involves one hero guy to save the day, millions of casualties, hilarious one-liners, and enough insane plot tangents that would cause you to have a headache.

If you're going into these types of movies, you'll have to go in with a certain expectation, or you will definitely not enjoy it. You have to suspend all belief in science, realism, and plausible actions. If you do this, you're gonna have a good time with what's on screen. 'Geostorm' is no different in this realm of movie genres. Behind the wheel on this vehicle is Dean Devlin, who is no stranger to natural disaster films. Devlin has written and or produced 'Independence Day', 1998's 'Godzilla', and 'Eight Legged Freaks' to name a few.

'Geostorm' marks Devlin's directorial debut and he pulls no stops, but fails short of anything worth while, despite the over-the-top catastrophe that takes place. 'Geostorm' cost $120 million to make, but only made $33 million in theaters. It did far better overseas, which made back it's money and then some, but has yet to find a big audience to to the incoherence of it all. In the near future, there have been major weather events that have caused significant damages and killed a lot of people. The world has come together and developed a satellite system that prevents the storms from happening by firing missiles into the storm.

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The brains behind this operation is Gerard Butler, which should tell you everything about this movie. For some reason, Gerard Butler is difficult to work with and is fired from this job where his younger brother Jim Sturgess replaces him. For the next few years, the satellite system works perfectly, until it doesn't and major cities fall and many people die by way of car sized hail, fire tornadoes, and even an ice storm in the desert that instantly freezes people to death. Turns out, there is a mystery person behind this who has injected a virus into the satellite system to cause these problems. It's now only up to Gerard Butler to travel to space and even kidnap the president of the United States, played by Andy Garcia to fix this problem. Mix in some henchmen, far-fetched theories, and Ed Harris, and you have a natural disaster picture that is highly entertaining and equally hilarious.

None of it makes sense at all. You'd think that Dean Devlin would have known through years of experience to make solid and well-rounded characters or even frame a bit of action well, but that's not the case. The visual effects aren't that good and the action beats of extreme weather and cities falling never really put you in the action. In fact, all of this you've seen before in past Marvel films or other disaster flicks. All this being said, if you're a fan of these ridiculous films, then 'Geostorm' is for you, the same way '