Nearly thirty years after the original film, Twisters sees the return of the good old-fashioned Summer blockbuster disaster-movie, and very welcome it is too. It follows the template of the first film quite closely (sparring male and female lead protagonists, lulls between the big special effects events) but with notable upgrades along the way, from basic ideas such as drones and social media to more distinctive elements such as character shading and motivations. The film opens with a blistering sequence in which Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) leads a group of university students on a disastrous field project; cut to five years later, and she is a New York meteorologist, persuaded by an old friend to give a week for a new tornado 3D-mapping project in stricken Oklahoma, where she locks horns with cocky self-proclaimed 'tornado wrangler' YouTuber Tyler (Glen Powell). Edgar-Jones is very good indeed in this big action role, Powell is confident as uses his on-screen star-power well, and the actors are given more to do between set pieces this time round. Whilst the 1996 film's original ground-breaking CGI effects still hold up reasonably well, here they are more nuanced and used to give some more immersive perspectives, with the final two events being spectacular indeed. If you are familiar with Twister then a lot of this energetic new film will feel comfortably familiar, but for the new generation watching, Twisters will, um, blow them away.
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