Deborah Ross

Impossible to doze through, sadly: Twisters reviewed

The film does at least do what it says on the tin, which is subject you to extremely bad weather over and over

B-movie panache: Sasha Lane (Lily) and Glen Powell (Tyler) in Twisters. Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures & Amblin Entertainment  
issue 20 July 2024

Twisters is an action-disaster film that follows ‘storm-chasers’ and is so relentless in its own pursuit of tornadoes that plot, character and dialogue are also thrown to the wind. It has a classy cast (Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell) and a classy director (Lee Isaac Chung) but if you believe, as I do, that once you’ve seen one big storm you’ve seen them all don’t expect any mercy. This never lets you off the hook and is so furiously and incessantly loud that a doze is impossible. God knows I tried.

This film never lets you off the hook and is so furiously loud that a doze is impossible. God knows I tried

That may be too harsh. The film does what it says on the tin, which is subject you to extremely bad weather over and over. You think tornadoes are rare events? Think again, as in Oklahoma there seems to be a violent, crashing one every two minutes.

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