Geostorm

Geostorm is a 2017 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Dean Devlin in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Abbie Cornish, Richard Schiff, Alexandra Maria Lara, Robert Sheehan, Daniel Wu, Eugenio Derbez, and Andy García. It opened in theatres on October 20, 2017.

Plot
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. Jake Lawson, a technology designer, is tasked with saving the world from this disaster.

Why It Did Not Brave The Storm

 * 1) It ends up being mh:greatestmovies:Independence Day meets Armageddon, 2012 and mh:greatestmovies:The Day After Tomorrow, both of which Dean Devlin had worked on. This is worse as it sounds due to a ludicrous plotline with underdeveloped characters and subplots that goes nowhere.
 * 2) It's a generic and forgettable disaster film that cares more about the over-the-top action sequences than the characters, story, and script, a la director Dean Devlin's superior, Roland Emmerich.
 * 3) Lackluster and poor visual effects that try to be disasterous.
 * 4) Uninspiring and cliched story that suffers the same disaster genre vein as Roland Emmerich's 2012.
 * 5) False advertising: On the poster, you see that Jake and Hannah Lawson have survived a tsunami or tornado. But in the movie, it never happened. Another misleading poster is that Egypt desert sand has been frozen, but neither has happened itself.
 * 6) *Speaking of Hannah Lawson (inspired by director Dean Devlin's daughter), she barely gets a fair amount of screen-time and only serves as the narrator.
 * 7) *On that topic, the poster rips off the poster for Christopher Nolan's mh:greatestmovies:Inception.
 * 8) Some of the characters were underdeveloped and one-dimensional.
 * 9) *Leonard Dekkom and his assistant Duncan Taylor are weak and generic "complete monster" villains.
 * 10) The tagline makes no sense because it says "Brave the Storm" when the heroes actually didn't brave the storm.
 * 11) Plot hole: Jake Lawson was the head of the international team that built the entire system and spent a huge amount of time on the space station, yet only a couple of years after being fired walks into a meeting on that station and none of the people working there recognise him? He'd be world famous.
 * 12) Lame and weak attempts at humor.
 * 13) Very bland cinematography that tries to be dynamic.
 * 14) Atrocious and laughably bad dialogue, which sounds like it was written by older people.
 * 15) Weak direction from Dean Devilin who hasn’t directed any movies after his debut.
 * 16) The scenes where Jake and Ute escape satellite with an escape pod is a blatant rip-off of mh:greatestmovies:Gravity, again, just like Life, another Skydance film.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Lorne Balfe's score is at least decent.
 * 2) Soild acting.
 * 3) The idea of worldwide disaster film is interesting even through its executive meddling.
 * 4) Even though Hannah Lawson gets barely fair amount of screen time, she was at least pretty cute and likable character.

Reception
Geostorm received largely negative reviews from critics and audiences, with criticism focused on the "uninspiring" story and "lackluster" visual effects, although Lorne Balfe's score are prised. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 17% based on 93 reviews, and an average rating of 3.57/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lacking impressive visuals, well-written characters, or involving drama, Geostorm aims for epic disaster-movie spectacle but ends up simply being a disaster of a movie.". On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 21 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

Chris Stuckmann gave this movie rating of D.

Box office
Geostorm opened up at #2 on its opening weekend making a domestic gross of $4,304,551. The total domestic gross was $33,700,160. In foreign territories, it made $187,900,000. Overall, Geostorm grossed $221,600,160 against its $120 million budget, making it labeled a box office bomb, causing Warner Bros. and Skydance Media to losing an estimated $71.6 million budget. The most likely contributors to its abysmal failure are its epically troubled production (see below), as well as the fact that a natural disaster movie tends to fight an uphill battle by default when its released in the wake of a whole chain of real life natural disasters (namely, a series of powerful hurricanes that devastated considerable parts of the United States and the caribbean just weeks prior). Despite the underperformed at the box office, it performance well at China, beating mh:greatestmovies:Blade Runner 2049 and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. This is likely because marketing emphasized Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu over Gerard Butler and other actors.

Trivia

 * This was Warner Bros. first film to produced by Skydance Media, since Skydance's distributing partner Paramount Pictures put the project into turnaround.
 * On October 16, 2017, Warner Bros. Pictures released a promotional prank video on its YouTube channel. In the video, a New York taxicab outfitted with hidden cameras drives onto a street apparently affected by an ice storm, much to the shock of its unwitting passengers.
 * After poor test screenings in December 2015, $15 million reshoots were conducted in Louisiana in early December 2016, under new producer Jerry Bruckheimer, writer Laeta Kalogridis and director Danny Cannon. Winnick's role was recast with Julia Denton during reshoots, while new characters were added into the script.

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