Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney

No returning stars from Jan de Bont’s 1996 original ‘Twister’ here, but the protagonists are rival storm chasers and the typeface on the poster is the same, so this counts as a sequel we guess.

A scary prologue has meteorologist and storm chaser Kate (Edgar-Jones) and her buddies (all recognizable faces suspiciously missing from promo material), monitored by project manager Javi (Ramos), plotting the progress of a tornado with tragic results.

Jump to a few years later where Kate is working in a research centre in New York. Javi turns up asking her to come to Oklahoma to help in testing a new tracking system which he hints may be able to actually affect the increasingly ruinous weather. The script stops disappointingly short of actually citing climate change as a cause.

To Javi’s surprise, Kate joins the team in Oklahoma. There she encounters Tyler (Powell) a charming YouTube channel-hosting good old boy seemingly chasing storms with his ramshackle gang for the thrills and glory. A tentative romance develops between the two as their excursions become ever more dangerous.

What the plot lacks in gale-force narrative momentum, the picture more or less makes up for with awesome action sequences, and a palpable chemistry between Edgar-Jones’s gutsy heroine and man-of-the-moment Glen Powell’s whose character’s rootin’ tootin’ persona belies a big heart.

Twisters is out now.

David Willoughby

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