Geostorm

I was expecting it to be terrible based on the reviews, but it's in fact a pretty normal - and relatively normally stupid - American disaster film where the actual disaster is not really that big of a deal because people are trying to prevent it, not survive it, because it's already happened. I guess I expected it to be more destructive, but I still thought it was alright. (01/22/2018)

I'm giving the film two totally subjective stars because it contained too many of my pet peeves. It was too multicultural, there was too much melodrama, American patriotism, too many moral lessons, and it reminded me too much of Independence Day. Plus, the whole time I felt like I was watching a film that was made in the 90s, only with updated special effects. At least the German woman didn't look like Angela... (03/05/2018)

More Emmerich than Emmerich himself, and just as dumb. No, actually not, this is far dumber. Emmerich takes his fairytales lightly, but this one is taken very seriously. Devlin didn't learn much from his buddy. That it was a fuckton of special effects? They don't impress anybody anymore. CGI effects are a standard today, not the privilege of a good film. Devlin was 20 years behind the times, and this dumbed-down mess deservedly flopped in theaters. (01/29/2018)

Geostorm is an extraordinarily bad and silly disaster blockbuster in which absolutely nothing works. It lacks Emmerich’s perspective and empathetic work with the characters. The scientific dialogue and the plot in general don’t make even a bit of sense and the political conspiracy plot line is laughable, as are the nonsensical weather elements (a cold wind-driven mega-wave flash freezes people in bathing suits on the beach in tropical Rio? Huh?). It’s been a long time since I’ve had trouble finishing such a well-cast film. (04/17/2021)

This film doesn't take itself as seriously as I feared it would, but at the same time it's also not as much fun as it would have been if Roland Emmerich had made the film. It's an above-average film, and of course it's basically pretty silly, it's just that I didn't mind it at all. However, I have to fault what is almost the most important thing – the plan of the main villain that causes everything doesn't make a drop of sense, which is something that shouldn't happen to films like this. (06/02/2019)