Geostorm Review: 2 Ups & 8 Downs

6. The Insanely Cliched Script

This is a disaster movie so aggressively steeped in cliches it almost seems like the film is doing it on purpose as some sort of self-aware self-parody. It isn't.

From the fact that Gerard Butler is the One Man who can head into space to fix the malfunctioning satellites, to the inevitability that he's got a daughter who he promises he'll return to, and the woefully tacked-on plot to assassinate the President, it's all Generic Blockbuster 101.

The actors try their best to not embarrass themselves while working their way through the dialogue, but when it's this boilerplate and simplistic, there's not really much anyone can do.

Every step of the way, this feels like an algorithm-created film, designed to be the most inoffensively serviceable entertainment to the largest possible audience, and to that end at least the shameless array of cliches might make you laugh every now and then.