Geostorm: A disaster of a movie?

“Geostorm” takes place in the near future of 2019, in which the weather is wreaking havoc on the entire Earth. Every country has banded together to fight a never-ending onslaught of bad weather. They get all their scientists to work together to build a giant grid of satellites around the world that can control the weather.  Now, I’m only a sophomore in Chemistry HP, but this already seems a tad unlikely and unscientific.Nonetheless, the world succeeds in controlling the weather with these satellites, and everything is fine, for a while at least. Alas, the grid starts to malfunction and freezes an entire village in Afghanistan. In response, the United States sends the main planner and engineer that built the grid up to the space station to fix the problem.“Geostorm” is selling itself as an epic action-packed disaster movie, but many critics have argued that the themes are tired and very similar to films like “Independence Day”. I haven’t seen “Independence Day,” so maybe that’s why I enjoyed it. It was fresh for me.One would expect some very impressive, realistic visuals in 2017, and this movie got panned for its lack there of. At one point, six tornados crash to the ground in close proximity, defying laws of nature. It was also tough to believe the boulder-sized hail and buses careening across the screen. However, the visuals weren’t the only problem: the dialogue was less than expectations, if I really had any for this movie. However, I wasn’t bothered by the sprinkling of corny one-liners like “Sorry about that, I literally just had to fly in from outer space” and “Marry her”.  If you don’t mind a little bad dialogue and a few too many scenes with just the main characters looking at a computer screen talking about encryptions and codes, it’s worth the big payoff at the end.Overall, I would recommend it as a fun movie to watch with friends.