First up, I’m a huge fan of the original Twister movie. I’ve seen it at least a dozen times. The disaster-movie genre is my guilty pleasure. This genre usually features a dud of a plot and lackluster acting, but the action is suitably apocalyptic. Exactly what I love. 🙂
It is super hard to rate this movie. Do I compare it to movies in general, or only disaster movies, or to the original Twister movie? I guess I’ll try all three.
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As a general movie, it probably falls in the C-range. It’s average. The writing is good, but not great.
As a disaster movie, it’s maybe a little better than average. Again, nothing outstanding, but it gets the job done. Tornadoes certainly get plenty of screen time.
In comparison to the original Twister. This is where it gets complicated. It’s hard to consider Twisters as a proper sequel to Twister. There is a clear hint in the beginning that they live in the same reality but there are no character or plot carryovers. Twisters has no where near the same magic that the first one had. I don’t think it would even be fair to expect that. What I did like is the parallel between the bad guy Jonas in the original and Tyler in the sequel. The writers did a good job of making it look like there would be a parallel between those two characters, but then they subverted that plot and flipped it upside down so that who we originally thought was the good guy wasn’t so good after all, but then maybe he was… It’s a little complicated. You know, like actual people are complicated.
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Overall, the thing I like the most about the movie is how the characters and relationships between the three main characters evolved. The characters Kate and Javi both evolved during the story. Tyler didn’t change much, but our perception of him did.
I’m having a hard time deciding if I like the actor/character Daisy Edgar-Jones/Kate Carter. I think the actress did a good job with the role she was handed. I’m not thrilled with the way the role was written, but I don’t hate it. This one is going to take some time, and a few rewatches, before I’m really sure how I feel about it. For now I can just say that I’m not disappointed, but I really didn’t expect much in the first place.
Grade: B
About The Peetimes: This was a hard movie to find Peetimes for. There are a lot of characters introduced early in the movie, and then there is a lot of tornado action in the middle. I managed to find two good Peetimes around the mid-point of the movie. Both are good, but I’d recommend the last Peetime over the others.
There are extra scenes during, or after, the end credits of Twisters.
| Rated: | (PG-13) Intense Action and Peril | Injury Images | Some Language |
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
| Starring: | Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Maura Tierney |
| Director: | Lee Isaac Chung |
| Writer(s): | Mark L. Smith, Joseph Kosinski, Michael Crichton |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
Plot
An update to the 1996 film ‘Twister’, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.
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