Geostorm

"Some things were never meant to be controlled."

2017 1h 49m EN

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6.1

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18%

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METACRITIC

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5.4

IMDB

★6.1TMDB · 5,367🥫18%Rotten Tomatoes●21Metacritic★5.4IMDB · 131,742

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Synopsis

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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.

“Some things were never meant to be controlled.”

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Cast

Gerard Butler
Jake Lawson
Jim Sturgess
Max Lawson
Abbie Cornish
Sarah Wilson
Alexandra Maria Lara
Ute Fassbinder
Daniel Wu
Cheng Long
Eugenio Derbez
Al Hernandez
Amr Waked
Ray Dussette
Adepero Oduye
Eni Adisa

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dean Devlin
Writers: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot
Languages: English
Countries: Hong Kong, United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Hong Kong, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CAST

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251+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Dean Devlin, shot by Roberto Schaefer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Lorne Balfe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Ron Rosen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Gerard Butler and Jim Sturgess and Abbie Cornish carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Dean Devlin directs. Roberto Schaefer behind the camera. Lorne Balfe scores. Ron Rosen cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in Hong Kong, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$120M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 9 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: Hong Kong, United States of America.
4251+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Dean Devlin, shot by Roberto Schaefer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Lorne Balfe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Ron Rosen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Gerard Butler and Jim Sturgess and Abbie Cornish carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Some things were never meant to be controlled.".
10IMDB entry: tt1981128 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 17 themes, including "future", "artificial intelligence (a.i.)", "weather manipulation", "end of the world".

The technical file

Cinematography: Roberto Schaefer
Original score: Lorne Balfe
Editing: Ron Rosen
Production design: Kirk M. Petruccelli
Costume design: Susan Matheson
Makeup / hair: Francisco X. Pérez
VFX supervisor: Rafa Solórzano
Sound: Mark Hailstone
Stunt coordinator: Charles Croughwell
Runtime: 109 min · 1h 49m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $120,000,000
Box office: $221,600,160
Return: 185% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Geostorm (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 18% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 21/100
IMDB rating: 5.4/10 · 131,742 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination total

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Dark Jedi2018-04-29
★ 7/10
If you take this movie for what it is, an action / science fiction movie with emphasis on fiction, then it is, in my opinion, actually not too bad. The movie starts of with the usual suspects, a bunch of political asswipes setting off to create their, equally usual, clusterfuck firing the one competent person they actually needed to run the climate control project successfully. To make matters worse the entire project are about to be turned over to “the international community” which of course is a well known recipe for disaster. Hollywood lives in their usual dream world of course so they throw in suitable, old-fashioned, bad guy with the “correct” political views for a bad guy and with an outrageous and apocalyptic plan and we are all set. Let’s ignore all that crap and focus on the movie. Once that nonsense is out of the way what is left is a fairly entertaining science fiction disaster thriller movie. The special effects are not bad and the movie moves along at a decent pace. The “raison de etre” for this movie is the action and the special effects so the story and the acting is adequate and nothing more. Unfortunately, as is all too often the case, the story writer is a bit of a low watt bulb. This satellite network that is the foundation of the movie is fairly unrealistic even for a science fiction movie. Let’s forget about the total insanity in even trying to cover the planet in a network of satellites that are actually physically connected, the feats that these satellites achieve is just so far off the realism scale that is is annoying. What the heck are powering them? Anti-matter, black holes? This could have been done much better. Then we have the self destruct sequence that is playing a large part towards the end of the movie. What kind of fucking self destruct blows up a few bits and pieces for show and then pauses so the characters can run around for half an hour or so? Either the story writer is dumb as a door nail or he thinks the audience is that dumb. Anyway, the annoying parts aside, as a science fiction and fantasy geek this was a fairly entertaining movie for me.
BoomCinema2019-06-29
★ 2/10
Today I attended a beautiful wedding where my baby sister took her vows, and started the next great chapter of her life. And then, when I got home, I inexplicably watched this piece of garbage, which might be the most subtle, yet clearly defined moment of emotional self-sabotage in my entire life. I am obviously unable to allow myself to be happy. <i>Geostorm</i> stars Gerard Butler as the least believable super scientist to ever exist. He looks like a drummer who is between bands and working part time as a bartender while he lives rent-free at his girlfriend's place. The plot is absurd even in the realm of sci-fi. The effects are awful, buildings topple over intact like giant building blocks, everything hot explodes, and typhoon waves deflect off of buildings and flow through the streets. Even if you couldn't guess every turn of the plot long before the movie manages to stumble toward it, the story wouldn't be any good. All of the humanity and heart is an afterthought: deadbeat dad makes his daughter a promise and has to save the world while he keeps it, weasel brother makes some hard choices to earn another chance with his family, etc. Basically, this movie is <i>The Wandering Earth</i> only even less entertaining.
Peter89Spencer2020-06-01
★ 7/10
So cheesy it's good!