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Twisters review: It may all be gale-force nonsense, but it's very watchable, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: I did some more laughing out loud during Twisters, so strenuously blow-hard are the efforts to turn the weather into what amounts to a monster movie.
That said, Lee Isaac Chung's film thunders along with impressive verve and energy as Kate, seeking redemption following a tragedy five years earlier by attempting to show that tornadoes can actually be shrunk by scientific intervention, hooks up with a charismatic self-styled 'tornado-wrangler' called Tyler Owens ( Glen Powell). The killer tornadoes ripping through Oklahoma are plainly the equivalents of Godzilla or alien invaders or the Great White in Jaws, especially as nobody, not even crack meteorologist Kate Cooper (Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones, pictured), seeks to explain them as, just possibly, a consequence of climate change Front man Damon Albarn is as effortlessly (and swearily) charismatic as ever and his old school pal Graham Coxon as engagingly strange, while bassist (and now cheesemaker) Alex James, always mindful of his image, tries hard to make up for his considerable paunch with some proper retro chain-smoking.
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