Twisters (2024)

Action/Disaster

Rated 12

Available to rent on Prime

Spoiler Free

My girlfriend and I had tickets to see Twisters in the cinema but my ankle had other plans playing sport the day before, twisting back on itself and breaking in two places. We forewent the cinema promising to watch it at home… and guess what?! We did. £4.99 which as my Mrs keeps telling me is five not four pounds, was a reasonable amount to pay for waiting a little while and riding out the frankly ludicrous £15.99 Amazon put new releases out at initially.

Have I paid £15.99 for an Amazon new release? Of course I have, but like I say, my girlfriend is the one with the common sense fiscally (and otherwise).

If you really need the plot, here you go. Years after an ill-advised science experiment gets exactly what its lackadaisical approach to safety gets exactly what it deserves, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) returns to the scene of her trauma to thwart deadly and apparently sentient tornadoes.

Yes, as narratives go the film is as simple and formulaic as really you want. I don’t desire hard nosed science, dammit, I want to see people sucked up into the atmosphere! I also want to see them go splat shortly after, but Twisters is a 12, so I knew that was off the cards going in.

Glen Powell is good fun as the arrogant, clash of personality, comic relief and obvious sexy time contender, Tyler, but the jittery English journalist Ben (Harry Hadden-Paton), who follows Tyler‘s team around looks so much like Sean Lock it is distracting. If you don’t know Sean Lock, a comic with Machiavellian powers of mirth, here you go, you’re welcome*.

Kate is essentially a weather psychic and she wants to assassinate tornado poltergeists.

We wondered about the science, and I’d have gone out on a limb to suggest it is probably laughable, so I watched some YouTubes on it, because obviously those are academic (see what I did there?). You know what, the feedback was remarkably positive in that Twisters doesn’t properly take the piss with its physics. Full disclosure, I don’t really care because I had so much fun watching the film.

Twisters does exactly what it says on the tin, providing spectacle and fun, whilst whipping people into the great wonder it has enough jeopardy and jokes to keep it a popcorn pleasure.

Bedsit it?

If you think Twisters might be for you, after a bit of wind wrangling, chicken chucking, vehicle vanishing fun, then it probably is. 7/10
*RIP Sean.