In the world of the film, humanity’s use of technology to control global warming works (as a result of international collaboration), and it only goes haywire once outside forces intervene and tamper with the system.
However, as Gerard Butler pointed out in our conversation, Geostorm feels unique in the ways that it takes a more hopeful tone.
Geostorm isn’t the first film to use global warming and climate change as a framework to explore some high-concept science fiction ideas — movies like The Day After Tomorrow and Snowpiercer also come to mind.
Viewed through that lens, Geostorm has a reasonably clear message that supports cooperation and teamwork as a way to keep our planet alive.