Humanity has been affected hard by the changing climate.
Governments around the world pooled resources into making a new technology to combat the
climate.
Using a grid of satellites, countermeasures to severe weather are deployed from space.
They name the machine Dutchboy, and it demonstrates its awesome power by blowing apart a hurricane
over Shanghai.
However, after successfully protecting the planet for a couple of years, something is
starting to go wrong.
What is the reason for it?
And would the governments be able to fix the malfunction before the next disaster?
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Follow us today to the movie titled: Geostorm 2017.
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We are now introduced to the lead man behind the project, Jake Lawson has been summoned
to a senate committee.
The meeting is over an exchange.
The US will be letting go of Dutchboy and handing it over to an international team to
keep oversight on it.
Saying that he helped build the station, Senator Cross upsets Lawson.
He retorts that it was his hands, and his people who built Dutchboy, not the Senator.
Senator Cross lists off his complaints the US have with Lawson’s handling of Dutchboy,
including using the station before it had been cleared to go.
However, Lawson counters with its success and shrugs off the grievances.
All the while his brother Max, who is at the committee, keeps telling him to back down.
Lawson however loses it when Cross tells Lawson that crewmen on the station will be replaced.
Lawson lashes out at Cross unsuccessfully.
Max meets Jake outside of the committee room and informs him that he is being let go.
Due to Jake’s unprofessionalism, having Jake on the project is bad public relations.
Max decides to get rid of him.
Three years later, while dealing with external temperatures above 120 degrees, an UN expedition
in Afghanistan runs into a village that has been flash frozen.
There were no survivors.
Word of this is sent all the way to the President of the United States.
With no doubt that this event was caused by Dutchboy, the President orders the story to
be silenced.
Max then proposes that since the station had a malfunction, it is the duty of the United
States to fix it, or risk more lives being lost, no matter the cost.
The President agrees with the sentiment, saying that since they are handing over the project
over to an international team, then they must fix it.
They will not hand over a broken project.
He then proposes sending up one person to fix the problem, and it's obvious who he means.
Back at the station, the satellite that was above Afghanistan has been ejected and sent
back up to the station to be investigated.
Another satellite is launched out into space to replace it, while a crewman named Makmoud
grabs the information, hides it in a folder, and places it in his locker.
Makmoud then heads down an airlock, but this becomes his last one, as the side panels are
ejected, and he is sent flying into space.
Back on Earth, Max drives over to Jake's home.
There he meets his niece Hannah who is working on a solar panel.
She comes running over to give him a hug.
It's not long after that Jake comes out of his home.
Not happy to see his brother, he tells Hannah that it is not good to talk to strangers.
Max tries to sweet talk his way into a civil conversation, but Jake does not want any of
it.
It's not until Max reveals that Dutchboy has had a malfunction, and an airlock failure
kills a crewman.
Though Jake pretends not to care about the issue, Max calls him out, stating that besides
his daughter and soccer club, Dutchboy is all he ever cared about.
He appeals to his ego, by stating that if he thinks he is the best, then how can he
not go back up to fix it.
Jake agrees to help under the condition that orders don’t come from Max.
Elsewhere in Hong Kong, a man named Cheng Long is looking into the Afghanistan issue,
when he decides to venture out for groceries.
A heatwave is plaguing the area, and just before he gets into his car, the ground starts
to crack.
Heat comes out of these cracks, and he drives away.
Fire erupts out of multiple sections of the city, with him doing his best to avoid being
killed.
As the city falls apart, he barely makes it onto a bridge.
Once crossing over to the bridge, the temperature drops rapidly, from 135 degrees to 83.
Later, Jack talks to his daughter before he goes.
She is concerned for his safety after overhearing the fate of the killed crewman.
Jake tells her that he will be fine and to trust him.
She then asks why Max fired him, and while he tries to paint it as a younger brother
being jealous, she asks why he doesn’t listen to him.
Soon her ride comes to get her, and she cries over the idea that Jake might not come back.
With a promise to Hannah, he swears that he will return soon.
Later, over at Cape Canaveral, Jake is strapped in and sent up into space on a shuttle.
It's not long before he starts floating around, and shows enjoyment being sent back to the
station.
With his landing successful he is greeted by Ute Fassbinder, who takes Jake around the
station.
He criticizes the state the station is in, pointing out defects and things that need
to be fixed.
He remarks that the Chief Scientist should learn to care for the station, to which Ute
reveals that she is the Chief Scientist.
Brushing it off, she leads him to meet some of the crew, and meets a loudmouth crewman
named Duncan.
The others include Adisa, Hernandez, and Dussette.
Back on Earth, Max crawls into bed with Sarah Wilson, a secret service agent that he has
had a romantic connection with for a while.
They have to keep it secret due to their respective jobs and their importance.
During this moment, Cheng calls up Max with some information.
He was trying to look at the satellite data when he claims that his access has been blocked,
and asks to see if Max can get in.
Turns out Max is also blocked out, which leads Cheng to suspect someone in the White House
is blocking them from seeing the data.
Cheng claims that if Dutchboy has a catastrophic failure, then the result could create a chain
reaction of storms, called a Geostorm.
After Cheng hangs up, armed gunmen come looking for him, grabbing his laptop while he hides.
Meanwhile Max goes to get some help from an analyst named Diana.
Initially hesitant, when he tells her to look at all the satellites over Hong Kong, her
curiosity peaks.
She finds something suspicious, someone was attempting to block Max out without him knowing
it was intentional.
She wants to help and tells him she wants in on the action if anything arises.
Back on the Station, the white house calls both Jake and Ute.
The main person to call this time is the Secretary of State Dekkom.
He lets him know that he wants him to fix whatever issue is plaguing Dutchboy, and then
informs him that any information that he gets will be reported to Max.
Though unhappy to be working under his brother, Max informs him that there is a chance the
defect in Dutchboy isn’t an accident.
He wants Jake to go retrieve the satellite over Hong Kong and pull the data from it to
see if their suspicion is warranted.
The satellite is brought back to the station and is supposed to be examined.
Before they can however, a malfunction happens, and the machine that holds the satellite goes
haywire, slamming itself all over the station.
The remains are examined, and determined the hard drives are destroyed.
Dussette then notes that one of the ejected airlock panels is stuck and getting it could
reveal why things are going wrong.
Jake and Ute head into space to grab the panel, and just as they retrieve it, Jake's suit
malfunctions, sending him into an uncontrollable tailspin.
Before completely floating off into space, he is able to save himself by grabbing a part
of the station.
Once back inside, he reveals to Ute that he took the hard drive out of the panel, but
when the rest of the crew comes to check on him, he lies about getting it.
Jake now suspects someone on the ship is trying to kill him, and when he looks over the hard
drive, he finds that there have been zero errors.
All the malfunctions have been purposeful.
He comes with a plan to look at the mainframe to see login records to see who is activating
the systems.
However, he is locked out.
While on Earth, Max is set to meet with Cheng to discuss what he has found.
Just as he spots him, Cheng is pushed Infront of a moving car, and is fatally wounded.
Before he dies, Cheng utters the word Zeus.
Jake then calls Max, giving him an apology, and persuades him to have a conversation.
Even starts talking about fishing with their father.
He signs off, leaving everyone else in the room puzzled, except for him.
He takes his call with Jake and takes it to Diana.
Using a code system they came up with as kids, Diana uses Jake's phone number to single out
specific words from his speech.
His real message is about him finding sabotage and it goes all the way to the White House.
Both Diana and Max then attempt to look up Project Zeus, but find they are not authorized
to see it.
Leaving them to enlist Sarah to get them access.
She reluctantly agrees to help, despite how criminal it would be.
Back on the Station, Jake and Ute go to replay security camera footage to see what Makmoud
did right before he was killed.
They see he took something from the satellite and notice that he probably put it in his
locker.
When they get in, they find nothing, and then find Dussette pointing a gun at them.
He realizes that Jake is not the culprit and offers to help them find Makmoud’s things.
Jake finds the hard drive, and discovers that it had a virus on it, planted by someone.
At the same time Max finds that the accidents are going on a pattern set up to create a
Geostorm, disguising it as accidents.
They can restart the system and kill the virus, but they need the President to cooperate.
After their conversation, 200 satellites start going haywire, creating cataclysmic storms.
Huge hail in Tokyo and instant freezing in Brazil, which is stopped by launching a satellite
at it, disabling it.
However, just as they stop one, a Geostorm is predicted to go off in 90 minutes.
The Station starts going into self-destruct mode, with the only person capable of doing
it being Duncan.
Jake orders everyone off the station, then goes to find Duncan, punching him in the face.
With his secret out, Duncan pulls a gun on Jake, revealing he sabotaged the station and
Dutchboy for money.
As they scuffle, Jake fires a gun at a window, creating holes in them.
Jake runs away and escapes right before the window breaks, sucking Duncan into space.
Back in Florida, Max asks Dekkom for help to shut Dutchboy down, and tells him he thinks
the President is causing it.
Dekkom follows Max’s lead and shows his true colors when he attempts to kill Max.
Max escapes and goes to Sarah, letting her know that Dekkom wants to use Dutchboy to
kill off everyone in the line of succession, so that he can become the President.
Sarah opens fire, escorting the president away, and gets him into a car.
As they exit the Stadium, a barrage of lightning strikes causes it to explode.
The men that Dekkom sends out to kill the President are dispatched by Sarah.
With nobody else left, Dekkom and his assistant track the president’s beacon, and set up
an ambush.
They wait for the car to come, and fire an RPG at the car, blowing it up.
However, it was a trap, and Sarah comes up from Dekkom’s behind, putting a gun at his
head.
Dekkom defends his actions by insisting that he wants America to be the Shining city on
the hill.
Max punches him in the face and Dekkom is arrested.
Dutchboy is still online, and it is still causing global storms.
Jake is still waiting in the station to shut down the system, when the President greets
him on call, and unlocks the system.
Jake has a low chance of making it home alive, and asks Max’s forgiveness, and to take
care of Hannah.
As he attempts to escape, he finds that Ute has stayed on the Station, and helps him get
to the main computer.
With almost no time left, Jake is able to manually reboot the system, preventing the
Geostorm.
The Station still continues to self-destruct, so they get into a surviving satellite and
escape.
They are spotted and a shuttle comes to rescue them.
Six months later, after Jake and Max finish fishing, Hannah informs us that NASA has maintained
the Satellites, and that the station will be rebuilt.
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