Movie review: Weak political elements take punch out of 'Geostorm'

"Geostorm" finds ways to draw attention away from an interesting use of weather as a weapon by using a cold front of political jabber.

The problems in "Geostorm" were caused by director Dean Devlin and co-writer Paul Guyot as they have taken a passable action film and buried it under a tsunami of political muck. Politics can work – even in an action movie – but each smart twist needs to be followed by an even smarter turn. Both Devlin and Guyot have worked heavily in television and their writing comes across like the half-baked plot lines of a low-grade TV show.