Geostorm - Gerard Butler (2017) - Nga Tsin Wai Road, Kowloon City

If the sudden jump from Mongkok to Sham Shui Po was too much of a leap of faith for you then this one will send you loopy because the immediate scene following the Wong Chuk Street is in fact all the way over in Kowloon City along the main road there, Nga Tsin Wai Road. Wong Chuk Street suddenly turns into Lion Rock Road as Wu skids around another corner in his attempts to outrun the apocalypse. The first two screen caps show the location from the junction with Lion Rock Road. The lower two screencaps is the view from the next junction with Hau Wong Road. You can make out the EFCC Grace Church building on the left of the screen and the hoardings of the building site that became "Billionaire Luxe" (last pic on left). That rather naffly named condominium building (trust me, by HK standards it's only mildy naff) was completed in 2016 so the fact that it is a building site here appears to fit with the principal photography timeline of 2014/15.

There are some further snippets along the same road but the next block over as we come to the end of the real Hong Kong locations. These next few bits were filmed between Lung Kong Road and South Wall Road.

Geostorm - Gerard Butler (2017) - Wong Chuk Street, Sham Shui Po

After zipping along Tai Nan Street, Wu (his character name in this film is the very uninspired "Cheng Long"), makes a left onto Wong Chuk Street in his attempt to escape from the exploding roadway.

I'm surprised Robert Chow from the so-called "Silent Majority", or someone equally soft-minded, here in Hong Kong hasn't hijacked this footage and edited it to make it look like the result of Hong Kong protesters...

Geostorm - Gerard Butler (2017) - Tai Nan Street, Sham Shui Po

Taking a leaf from Michael Bay's playbook the action quickly moves to Tai Nan Street in Sham Shui Po. I say Michael Bay because he filmed at exactly the same location just a few months before when he was shooting Transformers: Age of Extinction. If you follow that link you can see exactly the same shop signs in the top image (the corner we are driving around is Shek Kip Mei Street) as can be seen in Geostorm below.

The movie has been edited to make you think this is close to the last location, but actually its more than a kilometre away. This place blows up too.

Geostorm - Gerard Butler (2017) - Tung Choi Street, Mongkok

We first get to see Daniel Wu, looking quite nerdy, working at his desk and finding some anomaly on his computer display. He heads out to get some refreshment at a store. This scene was filmed all the way over on Tung Choi Street in Mongkok. The stairs at the back lead up to the Mongkok Road pedestrian walkway that has featured a few times in the last year or so.

Readers may know this street better as "Goldfish Street" because this is where all the aquarium and pet shops are located in Mongkok. I was walking around here one evening after the shops had closed and was astounded to see the public bins stuffed full off plastic bags containing the dead fish that weren't sold during the day.

There is a sudden heat spike and the ground explodes as some underground pipes melt and burst through the surface. Wu quickly drives away closely followed by the exploding pipes. There is another quick scene shot from the other end of Tung Choi Street (north of Bute Street) before a cut/edit to the next part of the escape sequence.

Geostorm - Gerard Butler (2017) - Central, Hong Kong

I recently watched Geostorm on Netflix without realising that it has some proper Hong Kong locations in it. So, after getting hold of some screen caps I felt it was worthy of inclusion here. It stars Gerard Butler (last seen on this blog leaping from the top of the then under construction 2IFC) as a scientist whose global system of weather controlling satellites protects the earth from sever weather. That is until someone decides to hack the system to wreak havoc across the world.

One of the places that gets to see the sharp end of the satellite system's power (it's called "Dutch Boy" in the film - no doubt a reference to the dude trying to plug up the leaky dam wall with his various appendages) is Hong Kong when hot weather havoc is experienced as the satellites cause some underground piping to overheat and explode.

Daniel Wu plays the HK contact for the good guys and it appears that this footage was shot several years before the film's release. IMDB says the principal photography was started in October 2014 so I guess the screen caps we are about to look at date back a good 5 or 6 years.

Anyway, the establishing shot for Hong Kong is a nice nighttime aerial view of central, including the aforementioned 2 IFC tower.