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‘Twisters’ Review: Disaster Movie Reboot Offers Spectacle But Little Substance


‘Twisters’ review: disaster movie reboot offers spectacle but little substance

It didn’t get much better than casting John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1997 blockbuster bruiser Con Air, but making Helen Hunt the lead in a disaster movie — just a year away from winning an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets — certainly gave Twister some unexpected gravitas. Soon, Kate is (literally) back in the field, which is where she meets Tyler Owens ( Glen Powell), a self-styled “Tornado wrangler” who chases twisters for entertainment, broadcasting his adventures live on YouTube. This leads them to El Reno, a twee rural backwater more American than Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, where the film’s biggest and best set-piece plays out and Kate, now in cahoots with Tyler, revisits her initial polymer plan with the help of rockets filled with silver iodide (or something).

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