Geostorm (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Dean Devlin
	Actors: Gerard Butler (300, Olympus has Fallen), Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia (The Untouchables, Black Rain), Ed Harris (A History of Violence, The Truman Show)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 14.07.2018, in-flight entertainment 8" screen
Synopsis: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
Review: Just the title and the poster made me though this movie was a cheap rip-off of trendy disaster movies like Ice Twisters, Sharknado or Polar Storms. But Gerard Butler as lead actor made me doubt so I watched it. And then the name of the director ticked: Dean Devlin has been close producer on the Roland Emmerich movies Stargate, Godzilla, Independence Day, The Patriot... and is now directing his own movie, trying to imitate the same style as his buddy. Too bad that it arrived after The Day after Tomorrow and 2012. As a good SF movie shouldn't do, it mixes too many genres: weather disaster, high-tech space stations (totally unrealistic) and political thriller. Just missing aliens and dinosaurs and it would be an Asylum or Syfy production... or Iron Sky. The difference with the aforementioned productions was the larger budget available for decent actors (they do their part), crew (the movie looks good) and Special Effects: they often look artificial but given the generosity with which they are displayed I will accept that, if you don't watch the movie on too large a screen. Well, it was fun to watch and I will probably do it again in the future when looking for easy entertainment.
Rating: 4 /10