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TWISTERS Movie Review

Is TWISTERS any good? Or just hot air?

What’s it about?

A girl, a boy and her abandoned love of tornadoes intersect. Stuff gets destroyed.

What did we think?

Anthony Sherratt says: TWISTERS is the answer to the question “What if Nicholas Sparks wrote about tornadoes?”

If he had, he would have titled it Storm Chasers or Tornado Taming and we would have got this mostly bland film that is 70% flirting, 25% illogical and a mere 5% cool tornado effects.

It’s not even a romance, choosing to indulge in a story that has more holes than disaster area and a sub-plot that makes no sense. But if it had been a Sparks production we would have at least got what we expected, forgotten about it and moved on. It’s very difficult to do so when it’s a sequel to such a large movie.

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell do a great job with some average material, but as it is, TWISTERS is far more disaster than disaster movie.

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5.5
It blows
A disappointing sequel that doesn’t really know what it wants to be. Even an interesting protagonist can’t save it when it’s surrounded by cliched storylines and characters.
Anthony has been reviewing movies for over 30 years (it may be longer now as he may have forgotten to add an extra year on). He lectures in journalism at the prestigious Queensland University of Technology and in addition to freelance writing, works with the charity Hands Across The Water. In a busy life, insomnia is his friend.
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