Geostorm Film Review

Finished watching Geostorm, directed by Dean Devlin and starring Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess and Alexandra Maria Lara. The film opens with Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) the inventor of the global satellite weather system going to a summons to a political committee about the system before it becomes a fully international operation and finds himself replaced by his brother Max (Jim Sturgess) as the head of the system. However the weather system soon begins to seemingly malfunction when a town in Afghanistan and its population is frozen in the middle of a desert. This causes Max to go to his brother for help to head to the International Space Station and meet with the stations commander Ute Fassbinder (Alexandra Maria Lara) to begin and investigation. Overall this was a decent film as it has a interesting premise but it's not executed very well as the CGI of the film creates almost zero amount of suspense as the multiple disasters look very unrealistic and cars look like they're driving normally while trying to escape a catastrophe. However what does redeem the film is some fun interactions between characters as their relationships feel realistic enough to understand while the dialogue feels cheesy in places with it bearable enough to find some enjoyment within the film. 6/10.