Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos

Synopsis:

From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar-nominated writer-director of Minari, Twisters stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People) and Glen Powell (Anyone But You, Top Gun: Maverick) as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.

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Pop culture is as cyclical as, well, a big tornado. It was only a matter of time, then, before the second-biggest movie of 1996 (after Independence Day) received the reboot treatment. What’s surprising is that it’s taken Hollywood so long to get sucked back into the whirlwind of Twister, the ludicrously high-concept blockbuster that eschewed anything as dreary as character or sparkly dialogue in favour of chucking trees, trucks and even a cow into massive tornadoes that swept Oklahoma. Come to think of it, there might have been a kitchen sink in there too.

So the disaster movie is back, now directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) and with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment again on production duties. Appropriately enough, the only recurring character is the bad weather itself: this time around, as before, the action focuses on ‘storm chasers’ who ride bravely (or foolishly?) into the chaos to gather information on tornadoes. Here it’s Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a weather nut whose addiction to ‘nados results in catastrophe depicted in a bravura opening scene, which sets the tone for a ‘90s-style popcorn bonanza that whirls non-stop with breath-taking stunts.

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