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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nIt\u2019s usually at the end of the review that I talk about a film\u2019s MPAA rating, but I\u2019ll twist it up for \u201cTwisters.\u201d Or rather, for its 1996 predecessor \u201cTwister\u201d and its all-time terribly-worded rating justification. The film was rated PG-13 for \u201cintense depiction of very bad weather.\u201d Yes, the depiction was intense, and yes, the weather was very, very bad, but those twisters were so violent and destructive that \u201cweather\u201d seems like the wrong word to describe them. They may as well have used the term \u201cextreme windiness.\u201d The twisters are similarly violent and destructive in \u201cTwisters,\u201d which is much more sensibly rated PG-13 for \u201cintense action and peril, some language and injury images.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kate and Glen Powell as Tyler, two storm chasers with different reasons for traveling Oklahoma looking for tornadoes. She\u2019s trying to set up a 3-D mapping system that will help scientists understand how tornadoes form and thus save lives. She used to think she could rig up a chemical reaction that could actually stop a fully-formed tornado, but a field test in the film\u2019s opening moments turns deadly, so she has to settle for the mapping system endorsed by her old friend Javi (Anthony Ramos). Tyler wants to shoot fireworks into a tornado to make a cool visual that gets him subscribers on Youtube and increase his celebrity so he can sell tacky merchandise. Kate is glad to have the moral high ground, or so she thinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the film progresses, Tyler shows he has more layers than Kate initially thought. He\u2019s a learned meteorologist and a big-hearted humanitarian. It also turns out that Kate may have jumped on the wrong bandwagon. She and Javi are noble, but their team\u2019s sponsor isn\u2019t. Kate and Tyler find that they like chasing the storms together, helping recovery efforts together, and just plain spending time together. Cute squabbling turns to cute flirting. Please tell me it\u2019s not much of a spoiler to find out that there\u2019s romantic chemistry between the smoldering cowboy and the beautiful scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there are the twister sequences themselves. I used to be terrified of tornadoes, but the fear mostly dropped off when I hit my teens. This movie may rekindle some of that fear, especially after the opening sequence. The rest of the sequences are fine. I was never unconvinced that there was danger afoot. One thing I knew going in was that twisters, while they can form quickly, don\u2019t lend themselves to jump scares, so I was wondering what the film would have to do to push my buttons that way. There are two effective jump scares that made me scream for half a second and then laugh for several full ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can probably guess the kind of experience that \u201cTwisters\u201d provides. It\u2019s a PG-13 disaster movie. The action scenes, while fraught with mortal danger, aren\u2019t going to feature anyone getting ripped limb from limb. The comedic and romantic scenes are perfectly predictable as well, with Edger-Jones and Powell having the pleasing chemistry I knew they\u2019d have. Of the characters that survive among Kate, Tyler, Javi, and Tyler\u2019s colorful team, I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing these characters in more movies. I\u2019m sure the filmmakers can come up with more creative storm scenarios. For now, this was exactly the movie I expected it to be, but I had a reasonably good time watching very bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: B-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTwisters\u201d is rated PG-13 for intense action and peril, some language and injury images. Its running time is 117 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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