Twister
Twister
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
adecaria reviewedJune 16, 2025
Bill Paxton is talented, but his greatest talent might be always going someplace where he shouldn't go. He walks straight into the OK Corral and caught a bullet in Tombstone. He struts into East St. Louis and catches a few more there during Tresspass. But seriously, Bill... why go into a tornado? You got lucky this time, and absolutely deserved to die.
Which is all to say that this movie was just a little too unrealistic and campy (we got cows?) for me to seriously be afraid of the true star of the show: the EF5 tornado that's basically treated as a horror movie villain.
But hey, it's still that classic summertime thrill ride that made 16-year-old me ride out with my buddy Justin chasing a local thunderstorm the day we saw it in the theater.