When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a worldwide net of satellites surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. 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.
In an attempt to save the planet from the devastating effects of extreme climate change, an eminent team of scientists led by Jake Lawson manages to build a powerful and elaborate network of satellites known as the "Dutch Boy", to practically control the weather. However, when unexplained accidents and catastrophic weather malfunctions start to occur, it's evident that what was invented to protect the Earth has now become its nemesis, wreaking havoc with random attacks. Can Jake and his estranged brother Max stop the string of dysfunctions before a Geostorm--an annihilating worldwide meteorological phenomenon--obliterates mankind?—Nick Riganas
In 2019, following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions a system of climate-controlling satellites called "Dutch Boy". After Dutch Boy neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai, a Senate sub-committee reprimands chief architect Jake Lawson for acting without authorization and replaces him with his brother Max, who works under Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom. Three years later, a UN team stationed in the Registan Desert comes across a frozen village. As suspicions rise about the event being caused by a malfunction of Dutch Boy, the US government decides to send one person to find and fix the system. Later, Makmoud Habib, an Indian engineer working on the International Climate Space Station (ICSS), is shown copying data from the Afghanistan satellite onto an external storage device. Habib stores it in his station locker, but he is unexpectedly ejected into space and killed. After convincing President Andrew Palma to conduct an investigation, Max persuades Jake to go to the ICSS to investigate. Another satellite increases temperatures in Hong Kong, causing gas main explosions that nearly kill Max's college friend Cheng Long, the head of Dutch Boy's Hong Kong department..
After several natural disasters on Earth, there is an international coalition of seventeen countries to build a system of satellites to climate control called "Dutch Boy" under the command of the chief engineer Jake Lawson. However, the efficient Jake is a free spirit man that despises politicians and is replaced by his estranged brother Max Lawson, who secretly lives with the Secret Service Agent Sarah Wilson. Three years later, UN soldiers find a frozen Afghanistan village. In the International Climate Space Station that is under the administration of the USA but will change in two weeks to an international consortium, the Indian engineer Makmoud Habib copies the data from the satellite responsible for the Afghanistan area to investigate and dies in a mysterious accident. Max convinces Jake to go to the station to investigate what happened. Meanwhile, there is an increase of temperature in Hong Kong, causing fire, explosions and collapse of buildings. Jake teams up with the German chief engineer Ute Fassbinder and her team. Soon Jake and Ute find that a virus was introduced in the system and there is a traitor among them. But who?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 2019, Following many natural disasters, an international coalition commissions a system of climate-controlling satellites called "Dutch Boy", which is initially put under US govt control. After Dutch Boy neutralizes a typhoon, a Senate sub-committee reprimands chief architect Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) for acting without authorization (to activate the system to neutralize the typhoon over Shanghai) and replaces him with his brother Max (Jim Sturgess), who works under Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom (Ed Harris). A subsequent planned handover of Dutch boy from US control to an international committee is thereby suspended on account of lax security protocols.
Three years later, as a United Nations field team stationed in Afghanistan comes across a frozen village in the middle of the hottest desert on Earth. Makmoud, an Indian engineer working on the International Climate Space Station (ICSS) steals data from the Afghanistan satellite shortly before being ejected into space (he hid the hard disk in his personal locker, before his "accident" that ejected him into space). After convincing U.S. President Andrew Palma (Andy García) to conduct an investigation into how Dutch boy caused this "accident", Max convinces Jake to go to the ICSS and investigate. Another satellite causes temperatures in Hong Kong to increase, resulting in a Firenado that nearly kills Max's college friend Cheng Long (Daniel Wu), the head of Dutch Boy's Hong Kong department.
Jake arrives to ICSS to examine the satellite that decimated Hong Kong with station commander Ute Fassbinder (Alexandra Maria Lara) and her crew. A malfunction damages the satellite and erase its data. Back on Earth, Cheng discovers he has lost login access and warns Max of global cataclysm known as "Geostorm" if the malfunction continues. Max discovers he cannot access the satellites and his login access has been deliberately revoked. Cheng flies to the United States after evading a team of armed mercenaries.
Jake and Ute fly outside the ICSS to retrieve a hard drive which had been ejected along with the satellite engineer Makmoud. They keep the hard drive secret from the crew, suspecting a traitor. Jake and Ute look for the source of the error but are blocked as all user access logs on the hard drive have been erased. Jake reports the findings to Max. The ICSS staff attempt to neutralize malfunctioning satellites (when suddenly 200 satellites malfunction and start to enable various extreme weather scenarios of Zeus) by deliberately knocking them offline via collisions with replacement satellites. After Cheng attempts to tell Max something, an assailant intentionally causes Cheng's death in a traffic accident, but not before Cheng tells Max "Zeus". Max and Dana (Zazie Beetz) discover Project Zeus simulates extreme weather patterns to create a Geostorm.
Jake, Ute, and fellow crew member Dussette (Amr Waked) recover the copied log data from the dead engineer's hard drive (which he had hidden inside his locker) and discover a virus has wiped out everyone's login access to that satellite. Jake suspects the President is using Dutch Boy as a weapon (Jake's hypothesis is that the President is not willing to transfer ownership of the system to the international committee and is again engineering a crisis). He tells Max he needs to reboot the system, which requires the kill code, held by the President. Max asks Sarah (Abbie Cornish), his girlfriend and a Secret Service agent, to help him to acquire it.
Max discovers Orlando is next in line for a super-storm after Tokyo is struck by a hailstorm and Rio De Janeiro is sprayed with ice. He requests Dekkom help secure the kill code from the President, but Dekkom instead tries to kill Max, unveiling himself as the saboteur. Max escapes and immediately informs Sarah.
He and Sarah kidnap President Palma to protect him from other compromised service members and secure the kill code. They escape from a stadium as a lightning storm destroys it. Amidst the chaos, Max reveals their activities to Palma. After outsmarting Dekkom's mercenaries, Max and Sarah confront Dekkom about his intentions: to wipe out all of America's enemies, take out the line of succession, and dominate the world.
On board the ICSS, the team loses control of all operations and is forced to watch the virus initiate the self-destruct program. As disasters strike the world, Jake realizes software engineer Duncan (Robert Sheehan) is responsible. In the ensuing confrontation, Duncan accidentally shoots at the window and ejects himself into space while Jake escapes. As the crew evacuates, Jake stays behind to ensure the reboot completes. Max and Sarah escort the President to Kennedy Space Center, where they learn the kill code cannot stop the self-destruct process, even after they avert the Geo Storm.
When Jake fails to unlock a door again, Ute, who stayed behind, opens the door for him. They work together to reboot the system, transferring satellite control to NASA and preventing the Geostorm. The two take shelter in a replacement satellite as the self-destruction sequence completes and send a distress signal. A nearby shuttle pick them up, and they see Hernandez (Eugenio Derbez). Six months later, Jake works as the head engineer for a new system of satellites, which is now administered by an international committee.
