Geostorm

Geostorm is an extraordinarily bad and silly disaster blockbuster in which absolutely nothing works. It lacks Emmerich’s perspective and empathetic work with the characters. The scientific dialogue and the plot in general don’t make even a bit of sense and the political conspiracy plot line is laughable, as are the nonsensical weather elements (a cold wind-driven mega-wave flash freezes people in bathing suits on the beach in tropical Rio? Huh?). It’s been a long time since I’ve had trouble finishing such a well-cast film. (17.04.2021)

More Emmerich than Emmerich himself, and just as dumb. No, actually not, this is far dumber. Emmerich takes his fairytales lightly, but this one is taken very seriously. Devlin didn't learn much from his buddy. That it was a fuckton of special effects? They don't impress anybody anymore. CGI effects are a standard today, not the privilege of a good film. Devlin was 20 years behind the times, and this dumbed-down mess deservedly flopped in theaters. (30.01.2018)

I don’t understand where the Yanks get their ideas to take a C-list catastrophic movie screenplay similar to Sharknado, employ a cast of A-list actors, put on a straight face and pay for good visual effects to make it look like a movie by Emmerich. (07.12.2018)

Katastrophal verunglückte Science-Fiction. Die beste Szene ist die, in der eine fragile Blondine mit dem entführten Präsidenten im Auto vor blitzenden Blitzen, einstürzenden Kränen, einstürzenden Brücken flieht und es noch schafft, die Verfolger-Killer zu beseitigen. Und Chuck Norris beneidet sie leise. (16.02.2018)

Bugger me! Cheap planet destruction with crappy effects and a crazy conspiracy plot. The predictable wannabe twists pulled out of thin air are saved by Butler's crass, authority-despising scientist. (02.05.2020)

Der Film nimmt sich nicht so ernst, wie ich befürchtet habe. Aber gleichzeitig macht er keinen so großen Spaß, wie wenn ihn Roland Emmerich gedreht hätte. Es ist ein überdurchschnittlicher und natürlich im Grunde genommen ziemlich dummer Film. Das hat mich aber überhaupt nicht gestört. Eine Sache, die fast das Wichtigste ist, muss ich aber kritisieren – den Plan vom Hauptschuft, der alles verursacht hat und der keinen Sinn ergibt. So etwas sollte auch bei solchen Filmen nicht passieren. (02.06.2019)

I'm giving the film two totally subjective stars because it contained too many of my pet peeves. It was too multicultural, there was too much melodrama, American patriotism, too many moral lessons, and it reminded me too much of Independence Day. Plus, the whole time I felt like I was watching a film that was made in the 90s, only with updated special effects. At least the German woman didn't look like Angela... (05.03.2018)

I was expecting it to be terrible based on the reviews, but it's in fact a pretty normal - and relatively normally stupid - American disaster film where the actual disaster is not really that big of a deal because people are trying to prevent it, not survive it, because it's already happened. I guess I expected it to be more destructive, but I still thought it was alright. (22.01.2018)