Details 12A // 109 mins // Out now Director Dean Devlin Screenwriters Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot Cast Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, Alexandra Maria Lara Distributor Warner Bros
If you think you know what you’re getting with Geostorm, well, you’re probably right. It’s big, it’s stupid, it’s got people outrunning enormous weather events, and it’s pretty bad in most of the ways that matter.
However, the big surprise is that Dean Devlin’s directorial debut is, for the most part, a ludicrous conspiracy thriller in which our heroes must figure out who’s behind a scheme to turn ‘Dutchboy’, the network of satellites constructed to protect us from mega-weather, into ‘a gun’. It’s not until the final 20 minutes that the tornadoes, floods and insta-icing roll out…
