Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star in perhaps the most entertaining film of the year P op culture is as cyclical as, well, a big tornado. It was only a matter of time, then, before the second-biggest movie of 1996 (after Independence Day ) received the reboot treatment. What’s surprising is that it’s taken Hollywood so long to get sucked back into the whirlwind of Twister , the ludicrously high-concept blockbuster that eschewed anything as dreary as character or sparkly dialogue in favour of chucking trees, trucks and even a cow into massive tornadoes that swept Oklahoma.
Come to think of it, there might have been a kitchen sink in there too. So the disaster movie is back, now directed by Lee Isaac Chung ( Minari ) and with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment again on production duties. Appropriately enough, the only recurring character is the bad weather itself: this time around, as before, the action focuses on ‘storm chasers’ who ride bravely (or foolishly?) into the chaos to gather information on tornadoes.
Here it’s Kate ( Daisy Edgar-Jones ), a weather nut whose addiction to ‘nados results in catastrophe depicted in a bravura opening scene, which sets the tone for a ‘90s-style popcorn bonanza that whirls non-stop with breath-taking stunts. Five years after the Bad Thing, Kate has relocated from rural Oklahoma to New York, where she’s working for a weather station, which admittedly seems like an odd way to forget what went down. One day she’s .