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Dir: Dean Devlin (12A, 111 mins)
Another apocalyptic disaster movie from the people behind 2012, this is more cheesy nonsense with epic special effects, little care for the cost to human life and is even more queasily uncomfortable in the wake of hurricanes bringing disaster to South Asia and America. Charisma vacuum Gerard Butler is your maverick weather expert, heading up an International Space Station project that uses satellites to control the Earth’s weather, thereby averting natural disasters. Obviously, something goes wrong with the space station now creating disasters rather than stopping them and a Geostorm is created, bringing all sorts of weather based mayhem to Earth, jumbo hailstones, firenados, tsunamis and flash freezes. It’s up to Butler to save the day, while on Earth Jim Sturgess has to stop President of the USA Andy Garcia from being assassinated. Sheer nonsense with dreadful dialogue, Sharknado with a budget, Geostorm still has the likes of Ed Harris in the support, along with Richard Schiff from The West Wing and Abbie Cornish as an FBI agent. The effects rule over all however, with the bloated catastrophes gleefully executed, frozen planes fall from the sky, Mumbai is blown apart and Gerard Butler’s face hardly moves. Give some money to flood relief instead.
Opens Oct 20