Twisters

Directed by: Lee Isaac Chung

Written by: Joseph Kosinski & Mark L. Smith

Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a brilliant scientist who thinks she may have found a way to tame tornado’s. But when the experiment goes tragically wrong, she runs away from her passion. When 5 years later an old friend, Javi( Anthony Ramos) invites her to help in a new experiment she reluctantly returns to storm chasing. Here is where she meets YouTube sensation tornado wrangler,  Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a cocky adrenaline junky. But Kate realises that she has much more in common with Owens and soon they team up, using their expertise and skills to try and stop a massive twister wreaking havoc.

I didn’t have great expectations for Twisters. But it’s a fun, action filled, blockbuster disaster movie. It’s loud, fast moving and full of action set pieces. And much better than I’d expected

It’s not all big wind action though and Daisy Edgar Jones’s does a great job of providing a character to care for as she tries to deal with trauma and guilt. There’s also a fun chemistry with Powell’s Tyler. The classic action movie wise guy, who we, unsurprisingly, discover has greater depths. It does occasionally stretch the story by looking at profiteering on disaster and the impact of climate change, but only at the very surface.

Twisters knows what it’s there to do and that’s to deliver roller coaster levels of up and down action. And it doesn’t try to do too much else. It’s full on from the start and, as buildings, cars and people are sucked up into the vortex and come crashing down again, you feel very much at the center of it. And the story rarely takes a breath as it whizzes through its 2 hour runtime.

Twisters is a good old fashioned summer blockbuster. It’s action packed, fast moving fun with effects that take you to the center of the action. Daisy Edgar Jones gives us a character to care about and there’s a good chemistry with Glenn Powell. If you’re looking for your summer action blockbuster fix, this should do the trick.