2017 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Geostorm
Directed by Dean Devlin1h 49m2017
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
Our read: Geostorm (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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