Geostorm
2017 · Directed by Dean Devlin
Woke Score
CriticCritic Score
Audience
Based
Critics rated this 1 points below its woke score. Among Based films, this critic score ranks #345 of 346.
Representation Casting
Score: 35/100
The film features a reasonably diverse ensemble cast including Zazie Beetz and international actors, but this reflects baseline contemporary Hollywood casting practices rather than deliberate representation choices that engage with the narrative.
LGBTQ+ Themes
Score: 0/100
No LGBTQ+ themes, representation, or storylines are present in the film.
Feminist Agenda
Score: 0/100
No feminist agenda or gender-conscious themes appear in the narrative or character development.
Racial Consciousness
Score: 5/100
While the cast is diverse, there is no thematic engagement with racial justice or racial dynamics within the story.
Climate Crusade
Score: 40/100
Climate change forms the plot foundation, but it is treated as a technical problem requiring engineering solutions rather than a systemic issue warranting social critique or examination of environmental justice.
Eat the Rich
Score: 0/100
No anti-capitalist themes or critique of economic systems appear in the film. The emphasis on technological solutions reflects technocratic rather than critical perspectives.
Body Positivity
Score: 0/100
No body positivity messaging or representation of diverse body types features in the film.
Neurodivergence
Score: 0/100
No neurodivergent characters or themes related to neurodivergence are present in the narrative.
Revisionist History
Score: 0/100
No revisionist historical elements or reexamination of historical narratives appear in the film.
Lecture Energy
Score: 15/100
The film's basic premise about global cooperation and climate crisis prevention contains minimal preachy content, focusing instead on action and conspiracy rather than thematic instruction.
Synopsis
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.
Consciousness Assessment
Geostorm arrives as a climate disaster thriller that mistakes its thematic setting for progressive substance. The film presents global environmental catastrophe as a plot device requiring technological solutions and international conspiracy resolution, not as an opportunity for cultural interrogation. The diverse cast reflects contemporary Hollywood casting norms rather than deliberate representation choices, and the characters themselves function as plot mechanisms rather than vehicles for social consciousness. The satellite network designed to control Earth's climate could have explored the political implications of technological governance and environmental justice, but instead the narrative fixates on sabotage and betrayal. The film's engagement with climate crisis is superficial, treating it as a technical problem for engineers rather than a systemic issue demanding social critique or examination of who bears the costs of environmental degradation. What emerges from the wreckage of this $120-130 million production is a film that confuses global scope with global consciousness. The critical and commercial failure (18% on Rotten Tomatoes, losing Warner Bros. approximately $74 million) suggests audiences and critics alike recognized the hollow center beneath the expensive spectacle. There is nothing here to challenge or provoke, only the sound of expensive machinery grinding without purpose.
Analysis generated by our Consciousness Algorithm
Critic Reviews
“Geostorm is as dumb as you think, but more fun than you might expect.”
“Just as trying to keep up with every geopolitical crisis on the planet all at once can be overwhelming, trying to track Geostorm’s name-checked concerns and its barely present characters is likely to tax viewers’ attention spans. Horror movies help people process some of our worst fears, but there’s a reason most movies don’t try to address every human fear at the same time.”
“It’s an action movie without an exciting moment. It’s a special effects flick with chintzy visuals. And it’s a Gerard Butler vehicle without enough Gerard to go around. ”
“Even though no movie that lends itself to individually tailored special effects should be a royal snoozefest, it’s 2017 and everything is awful, and so, too, is Geostorm, a disaster movie without a disaster and an apocalypse flick lacking the apocalypse. ”
Consciousness Markers
The film features a reasonably diverse ensemble cast including Zazie Beetz and international actors, but this reflects baseline contemporary Hollywood casting practices rather than deliberate representation choices that engage with the narrative.
No LGBTQ+ themes, representation, or storylines are present in the film.
No feminist agenda or gender-conscious themes appear in the narrative or character development.
While the cast is diverse, there is no thematic engagement with racial justice or racial dynamics within the story.
Climate change forms the plot foundation, but it is treated as a technical problem requiring engineering solutions rather than a systemic issue warranting social critique or examination of environmental justice.
No anti-capitalist themes or critique of economic systems appear in the film. The emphasis on technological solutions reflects technocratic rather than critical perspectives.
No body positivity messaging or representation of diverse body types features in the film.
No neurodivergent characters or themes related to neurodivergence are present in the narrative.
No revisionist historical elements or reexamination of historical narratives appear in the film.
The film's basic premise about global cooperation and climate crisis prevention contains minimal preachy content, focusing instead on action and conspiracy rather than thematic instruction.