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‘Twisters’ Review: Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones Lead a Sequel Full of State-of-the-Art Storms, but It’s Less Awesome Than the Original
Glen Powell leads a sequel that follows the template of "Twister," yet 30 years of real-life storm-chaser footage has given it a higher bar to clear.
But once the film cuts to five years later, when Kate is a weather analyst based in New York, she emerges as a doleful and slightly recessive presence, one of those outwardly spunky heroines with an inner quietude, and it’s hard to tell how much of that is the character and how much is the actor. Then again, maybe she’s just leaving all the popping to Glen Powell as Tyler Owens, a good-ol’-boy storm chaser in a white Stetson who has built up a following on YouTube as the “Tornado Wrangler,” a grinning cowboy daredevil who doesn’t just film twisters. Powell, with that squint, that coif, those complex dimples, confirms his old-school movie-star magnetism (think the young Clint Eastwood as a highly evolved brainiac), and there are moments of spectacle that hook you, like a water tower crashing down, or the sequence that starts with Kate and Tyler’s date at a rodeo and climaxes with a fearsome twister that has them clinging to the corner of a motel swimming pool.
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