Friday, 25 May 2018

Geostorm

(Dean Devlin/2017/USA)

The name anticipates epic, global disaster and would have you think this will be a great afternoon’s popcorn munching, effects laden spectacle of destruction, but it’s not. It makes the mistake of over investing in the soap opera of the lives of the main players and pushes the natural disasters to second fiddle. If I’m signing up for potential global destruction as entertainment I want to see a lot more of the disaster upfront and less of the emotional, angsty family drama between two brothers. Geostorm was disappointing, although some of the set piece disaster scenes are hilarious.

(2/5)

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