Twisters Is As Good As Disaster Movies Get

The Twisters movie is out today and I’m here to confirm it’s a certified good time of a disaster movie.

The bar for disaster flicks is set exceedingly low. You go with the expectation that stuff will get wrecked and people will run around panicking. It delivers that perfectly but it also got the memo that everyone came for a good time, so it has a good time in return. This is a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister. Don’t worry you don’t need to have seen that one. It’s not the same twister from the original coming back for revenge.

The characters vibe with each other, get nerdy about over weather patterns, and stirr a suitable amount of character tension to keep the plot moving between storms.

The movie centres on Daisy Edgar-Jones’ character who’s a weather scientist getting back in the saddle and doing field work after a traumatic incident five years earlier. Anthony Ramos plays the old childhood friend acting as the catalyst to bring her back into tornado alley as he promises Daisy that accurate tornado mapping data could hold the key to saving lives in the future. Finally Glen Powell swaggers in as the yeehaw yankee loud youtuber seemingly cashing in on a culture of storm chasers, t-shirts and mugs with his face on them left in his wake. The two guys form two sides of the culture surrounding storm chasing, and Daisy has to navigate allegiances and a very light dash of sexual tension to discover where she stands, and what she is capable of.

The two sides with competing objectives often duke it out in chase scenes which offers an alternative level of excitement in the leadup to the main event, big wind.

The film keeps the plot tight and intimate, which is essential for flicks like this to feel like a satisfying experience. They aren’t saving the planet from a mega tornado, They’re bushwacking prairies in middle America, geeking out over the thing they love the most while avoiding getting thrown a kilometre into the air by it. Director Lee Isaac Chung wants you to feel like you’re hanging out with a bunch of friends having a good time, while occasionally having a traumatic time, and I’m here for it.