I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This happens all the time on IMDB. a political movie gets rated low because the elites come out and troll it This a good movie and an important one

When a space-based system designed to fix climate problems develops critical flaws the world has to turn to the temperamental man who invented it. The screenplay was terrible at so many levels, but it was surprisingly watchable, and the special effects---which the critics lambasted---were very good. Coming back to the screenplay: Why did they set it so close in the future (next year, 2019)? They could have just done that usual science fiction method of 'the near future'. The technology shown in the film is decades away. But the worst aspect of the film is the dialogue, excrutitatingly bad. The Director is Dean Devlin, who has an excellent track record in production, has directed only TV up to this point and maybe he should have left it at that. He collaborated on several films with full-time Director Roland Emmerich which were far more worthy efforts if not always factual. These included Independence Day and The Patriot.But have a look at this film, you might just be entertained.

Listen, this isn't the 90s anymore... Why was the principal lead allowed to wear such a God-awful hairstyle? Is it a wig? Was it a character choice? Had the actor moved on to another project where he was required to chase his head and was then called back to Geostorm for re-shoots? All of these questions were so distracting that I couldn't really follow the plot. I had to IMDB the picture just to check when this was filmed as I thought it was a period piece.Gerard Butler has also let himself go a bit.

Without the opening and the ending sequence, I might have given this film a rating of 7. But the preachiness of ¨the message¨ was just way too emetic. The movie would greatly benefit from a simple editing out of those segments.