Rent Twisters (2024)

Average Action Adventure - Twisters review by GI

Sequel or remake of the 1996 film is a matter of debate, I'm firmly of the view this is an updated remake as the narrative follows a similar structure but it lacks a sense of originality and the relationship tensions that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton brought to the earlier film are surely missing here. But this is all about the tornadoes I suppose and here we have plenty of them and two teams chasing them. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Kate, a talented country girl with an instinct for knowing when tornadoes are going to pop up who has developed a career in climate but due to a tragedy she has given up storm chasing. She's lured back by an old friend with a plan to fire chemicals into the heart of a tornado that will cause them to collapse. On the road Kate is frustrated by the storm chaser, Tyler (Glenn Powell), a former rodeo star out for the thrills of it. Of course they eventually join up to get the job done and there's a good mix of disaster genre tropes and action set pieces. But it's all a little underwhelming and Edgar-Jones, such a talented actor, doesn't have enough to shine here. The promise of romance is never fulfilled and what we're left with is a reasonably entertaining disaster film that lacks the characters so brilliantly conceived in the 1996 film. It's ok but instantly forgettable.