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.
Surprisingly fun popcorn movie that moves a air clip even if it has little depth and the stakes seem weirdly low given the loss of life and property destruction on display. There's very little connection to the original Twister making this more remake than sequel. Glen Powell and his rag tag band of storm chasers are initially extremely grating but calm down as the film progresses. What does not calm down is the wall to wall soundtrack of awful FM radio country rock.