After almost 30 years, we will look once more among the tornado hunters, who like to drive once morest the destruction of mother nature, but often it is not just adrenaline, but also a good thing. This is the case of young Kate, who during her college years had an idea to stop tornadoes. But the experiment ended with the death of those closest to her, and of course the trauma haunts her. Her quiet and inconspicuous life in New York is interrupted by the arrival of her friend Javi. He and his team have created a system to monitor and research storms, and he wants Kate to join them, at least for a while.
Although the heroine hesitates, she finally agrees and goes to Oklahoma, where she chases the biggest tornado together with the specialists. However, they are not the only ones. YouTube star Taylor Owens and her quirky party keep them in unwanted company. The self-proclaimed tornado chaser takes storm hunting his own way, and it seems like it’s just an adrenaline-pumping pastime for the unscrupulous rascal, gathering followers and selling t-shirts. However, Kate begins to find a way to Owens and at the same time discovers that Javi’s team may have different plans with the data provided than she thought. In addition, dangerous tornadoes around Oklahoma are starting to increase.
The creators of the new part had several options to tackle the brand’s long-delayed comeback. It might be the most modernized version for a young audience, partly a direct continuation or a nostalgic look back full of references and fan service reminiscent of the first. However, director Lee Isaac Chung (the award-winning drama Minari) partially rejected these possibilities and went for the most direct, but in this case also a very likable way – he simply made a film that, with its style, narrative and a certain naivety, seems to have come straight out of the 90s. let.Twisters: 2nd trailer | Vertical Entertainment
Nineties in full glory
So here, too, it partly relies on nostalgia and how much you like action and disaster from this period. At the same time, you don’t need to know the original movie at all, because the new one doesn’t flood you with an excessive portion of links, and you can enjoy Twisters on its own. Just “turn it off” in the cinema. Twisters is honest, low-key fun, in which something is flying through the air every now and then, the music is honestly blaring, the heroes are throwing the right dramatic looks while saying pathetic statements and meteorological terms or theories that probably don’t make any sense in reality. But it probably bothers few people here. The film does not lack an appropriately light-hearted atmosphere and perspective, thanks to which you will soon realize that the creators here only want to have fun and serve the best disastrous feasts.
And they succeed in that too. There is not much to complain regarding on the audio-visual side, the scenes with tornadoes are suitably sound dense and they can also boast of an excellent trick side. The overall atmosphere is also helped by the environment of the American backcountry. It’s seriously refreshing when a disaster movie doesn’t have the White House or the Statue of Liberty collapsing, but instead you’re watching bullies and tough guys in cowboy hats listening to country music, going to the rodeo, and having their house blown up by a tornado here and there.
A well-matched couple to watch
Then, of course, there is the central couple, with whom the creators hit a real terno. The main duo is incredibly well-matched and Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell have great chemistry. Such a well-matched duo, which you will keep your fingers crossed for and enjoy their bickering, at least this year’s blockbusters were missing. Glen Powell confirms his damn strong year here following The Killer and Romance With You Never, and Jones for a change following the series Normal People shows once more that she is definitely an acting talent to be reckoned with. In addition, the film can also boast of nicely sketched and aptly cast secondary characters, which quickly stick in your memory and clearly fulfill their purpose.
Even so, this relaxing pastime has its limits. Although the action sequences with tornadoes are above standard and will certainly not stop entertaining the audience, they are sometimes hurt by the editing and also by the fact that due to a certain monotony and the same danger, they do not have passages to grade. Yes, the creators give us tornadoes/twins once, and a fiery rampage the second time, but still, at the core, the game is still the same, and the execution of the passages is starting to get a little repetitive towards the end.
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The finale is definitely not as adrenaline-charged, pumped up and exciting as we would like following the previous events. Likewise, it is not a good idea to think more deeply regarding the plot and the motivation of some characters, but perhaps everyone expects that in advance. After all, Flushing Twisters is definitely not a perfect blockbuster, and it doesn’t even try to be. He wants to remind the viewer of the aura of the original film and especially of the nineties genre films as such, which he succeeds in doing. And sometimes that’s enough to be satisfied.
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Twisters coughs on empty fan service or modernization of the topic in the form of global warming. This blockbuster simply wants to “just” comfortably entertain and serve a functional audiovisual spectacle in which cars, houses and factories fly. And thanks to incredibly likable actors and craftily confident direction, it works exactly as it should. The return of the 90s, as it should be.
Milan Rozšafný
