Martinski43
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Okay so reviews for the movie event of the year has started to arrive.
http://ew.com/movies/2017/10/20/geostorm-review-ew/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...ss-not-enough-gerard-butler-review/779809001/
https://www.avclub.com/the-ridiculous-geostorm-gives-new-meaning-to-the-term-1819709151
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/geostorm-review-dean-devlin-1202595240/
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/geostorm
Currently 19 of 100
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/geostorm
Currently 21%
http://ew.com/movies/2017/10/20/geostorm-review-ew/
Rating: DWhat if Armageddon but weather? That seems to be at least one of the half-baked pitches that led to Geostorm, a disastrous disaster movie that is actually quite low on the disasters to its own detriment.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...ss-not-enough-gerard-butler-review/779809001/
Rating: 2 out of 5 starsLet's be honest: You don't go into something like ”Geostorm" thinking it's going to be great. But there are things you expect to see, and actually hope for. For instance, Gerard Butler swaggering around for a couple of hours as a wisecracking action hero? Sign me up. Whiz-bang visual effects depicting the destruction of major cities around the globe? Neat-o! But when the movie can't even fulfill those relatively meager pleasures, you're left with a big, boring mess like ”Geostorm." It's an action movie without an exciting moment. It's a special effects flick with chintzy visuals. And it's a Gerard Butler vehicle without enough Gerard to go around.
https://www.avclub.com/the-ridiculous-geostorm-gives-new-meaning-to-the-term-1819709151
Rating: D+In the tradition of KFC's Famous Bowl—famously described by Patton Oswalt as ”a failure pile"—comes Geostorm, which attempts to be every possible apocalyptic weather-based disaster movie at once. Set just a few years from now, it imagines that the world's nations have collaborated to build a vast system of satellites that somehow prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Unfortunately, the system gets hacked, and the satellites are turned against humanity, creating weather events far more extreme than anything Mother Nature can concoct. A sudden heat wave causes underground Hong Kong gas mains to explode, sending cars skyward on fireballs. Tsunamis of cold literally turn beachgoers into ice statues, frozen in mid-stride as they flee. People are crushed by enormous boulders of hail. And these are just isolated incidents—unless someone regains control of the satellite system, its attacks will eventually trigger a chain reaction, leading to a global ”geostorm" that could wipe out much of the human race.
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/geostorm-review-dean-devlin-1202595240/
Rating: 10 of 100 (Metacritic)When it comes to the issue of global warming, the world divides into two camps: those who believe in science, and those who adopt an actively skeptical position toward other human beings' ability to interpret and in any way impact what nature has in store. An inanely spectacular disaster movie — though perhaps ”spectacularly inane" would be more apt — from the producer of ”Godzilla" and ”Independence Day," Dean Devlin's ”Geostorm" attempts to have it both ways, treating a gang of scientists who've ”solved" the problem of global warming as its heroes while exploiting how little its target audience knows about the subject to supply an extreme-weather clip reel with contributions of variable quality from a dozen different visual effects houses.
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/geostorm
Currently 19 of 100
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/geostorm
Currently 21%