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TWISTERS – Benjamin Wallfisch
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Considering how popular the film Twister was in the summer of 1996, I am surprised that it has taken almost thirty years for there to be an official sequel, but thanks to director Lee Isaac Chung, and screenwriters Mark L. Smith and Joseph Kosinski, we now have one to enjoy. Twisters, as it is somewhat unimaginatively named, is technically a sequel, but is actually more of a remake or reimagining of the same basic story. It stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as storm chaser and budding meteorologist Kate Carter who, along with her friends, is using an updated variation of the tech used by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in the original film to try to understand and reduce the intensity of tornadoes in Oklahoma. However, after an experiment turns deadly, Kate gives up storm chasing, and five years later she is working at a weather forecasting office in New York. Things change for Kate when she is coaxed back to the tornado front lines by her old friend Javi (Anthony Ramos), who is now working for a large well-funded company and is using military-grade technology to study tornadoes; even more interestingly, while out on the road with Javi, she encounters the self-proclaimed ‘tornado wrangler’ Tyler Owens (Glen Powell) and his ragtag crew. Tyler is brash and arrogant and is apparently only interested in increasing his number of YouTube followers, but there is more to him and his team than meets the eye… Read more…
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