This seemed to happen this past week with Geostorm, which landed on the streamer and seemingly made waves. As exciting as that is, fans of the film should get pumped for another reason.

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Gerard Butler's disaster movie Geostorm has become a Netflix hit, following an underwhelming performance at the box office. Directed by Dean Devlin, the film stars Butler as a satellite designer ...

The Hollywood Reporter said: "The planetary disaster film equivalent of a two-hour call to tech support, Dean Devlin's Geostorm boils down to that classically annoying hail-mary bit of advice ...

Case in point, "Geostorm" a by-the-numbers disaster flick ... Book of Eli," and a Gerard Butler-led crime thriller that action movie fans shouldn't miss. Nothing catch your eye?

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And I [tried to say], ‘Well I’m supposed to be doing an action movie in about three weeks ... a daze then but was not seriously injured. Geostorm crashes into theaters Friday.

After three years of successful protection, something starts to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a worldwide Geostorm can engulf the planet.