Twisters Review: A Warm and Entertaining Tribute to the Original Classic

In 1996, the disaster movie was in decline. Since its emergence in the 1970s, it had become a genre full of cliches and a box office flop. So success Twister Jean Le Bon’s The Last Jedi was as much a surprise as it was a lesson. The film, which tells the story of Jo (Helen Hunt), a meteorologist with a troubled past who finds solace in science, was little more than an excuse to show off a stunning visual spectacle. To be fair, Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin’s script was less about plot than about a sense of impending disaster. This turned the whole premise into a gripping experience.

Twisters It takes the idea of ​​catastrophic weather events as a visual spectacle and tries to do the same thing as the original film. Director Lee Isaac Chung uses much of the film’s opening minutes to set the record straight. Tornadoes, presented in fiction on a titanic and almost mythical level, are enemies to be defeated. Or, at best, a phenomenon beyond human understanding, which for that very reason attracts the unwary. Which allows the visual section to create its own atmosphere of imminent cataclysm. Moreover, the one who declares will become worse as the power of the phenomenon only increases.

It’s a somewhat convoluted and underdeveloped idea that the film seeks to reinforce. But at best, it only touches on the basics, without making much effort to add anything else. In fact, the biggest problem with Mark L. Smith’s take on the argument is that it doesn’t offer much in the way of novelty. As if it were a formula that needed to be expanded upon without losing sight of the film it was taken from, the film offers little in the way of novelty. The scope for new adventure is so limited that the plot remains in the foreign territory between rebootto tie remake. Being neither, the script solves the simplest option. Retell the story about Twister, but this time with the right additions for the new generation.

There’s nothing new under the sun,Twisters‘

It’s so similar Twisters to the original, that the conflict is practically the same, with some new moments to try to separate itself as best as possible from the inevitable comparison. Like the iconic Jo Helen Hunt, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) has a painful and traumatic past. Because of this, his life depended on two decisive moments. On the other hand, you can heal psychological and emotional wounds with science. On the other hand, defeat your enemy. This means finding a mechanism that would allow tornadoes to be predicted and stopped in near real time.

A goal that seems to be about to be realized thanks to Javi (Anthony Ramos). This typically brilliant but erratic scientist is convinced that he has found a way to track weather patterns that can prevent future disasters. And this is thanks to a three-phase sensor system with unexpected technological sensitivity. All of the above may seem profound and interesting, but the film manages to forget it as quickly as possible. And this is because all the interest of the script is directed elsewhere. It shows that the tornado scenario, There are those who understand its destructiveness, and there are those who just want a spectacle.

A film to the glory of its main character

In second place is Tyler Owens (Glen Powell, from Anyone but you), in a role intended exclusively for him. This superstar influential persona social media icon with a Texas accent and the inevitable fedora, is designed to show off his protagonist’s charm. And he does. Not one to take tornadoes seriously, Tyler roams the plains during the most dangerous times, chasing down violent phenomena for a captive audience. Which, of course, will not only anger — and disturb — Kate. It will also provide an opportunity to tell what appears to be a clash of three fronts facing each other.

First, there are the hard-working scientists who want to solve the mystery of what causes tornadoes to appear in the first place. At the other extreme, there are those who simply want to enjoy a unique event filled with wild beauty. And finally, there are the tornadoes that have become almost living creatures, rising like destructive cylinders with dazzling realism. But what is unfortunate is that Twisters Don’t go beyond this and have no intention of going further. The script is firmly in place. remain simple, cheerful and carefree, although he could do much more.

Despite everything, Tornado delivers

In the 1996 film, which featured glitches similar to Twisters— the conflict was resolved through clever use of character tension. So much so that even when the main tornadoes weren’t destroying cities and landscapes, the film was still interesting. Much more so when Crichton and Martin They made their script crazy, muscular and believable.

IN Twisters Not only is there no tension here, except for the dazzling and extraordinary special effects, some of the best in recent years, there is not much to add to the band’s story. adventurers trying to withstand the great forces of nature.

Overall, the film at least tries to pay homage to the original classic, and it succeeds. There is a sense of shared history and a chilling sense of the unpredictable disaster that surprised us in 1996. But despite this, it is inevitable to remember how Twister He did it at very little cost. Something new TwistersI can’t brag.