Pretty Good

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

"Twister" stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as Dr. Jo Harding and Bill Harding, whom are investigating and chasing an immensely intense series of tornadoes. Scenes in "Twister" were relatively accurate, yet horrific portrayals of how twisters and tornadoes are perceived and experienced. The main storm chasers, Dr. Jo Harding and Bill Harding, speak of series of storms occurring in one of the beginning settings of the movie. They are both storm chasers and are expecting tornadoes to arrive after the sky begins to show signs of a tornado forming. Watchers can see the lightning and the dark clouds in the sky behind the characters during the beginning of the movie. This weather is similar to how clouds of debris begin to form today before tornadoes. The scenes of the tornado show dust clouds forming around the tunnel of the tornadoes and the darkish green clouds and sky that surround it. This is an accurate portrayal of real-life tornadoes and how they look from afar. However, it shows debris being blown away from the tornado when in reality it should have been sucked into the tornado itself. This portrayal of the tornado was inaccurate and not scientifically correct. Also, the sounds of the tornadoes in the movie are inaccurate to how real tornadoes should sound. Real tornadoes have a roaring sound and sound as if a train was near. However, in the movie, they used sounds that didn't have this train engine sound.Dr. Jo Harding and her fellow storm chasers were preparing to follow these tornadoes in their "tornado proof" vehicles. Storm chasers today use these tactics when chasing storms. They guard themselves with these tornado proof vehicles along with their many computerized machines to help dictate and describe the characteristics of the inside of a tornado in a closer perspective. This is a true representation of how storm chasers are seen today. The precautions the characters took in "Twister" accurately displayed those actions an everyday citizen should take. Hiding in underground cellars, driving and moving away from the direction the tornado seems to be going, and listening to radio and television announcements that are being put out about the weather and precautions one should take in order to not be harmed or killed. I learned a few lessons from this movie: don't be a storm chaser unless you plan on close death or actual death, and don't believe that all things which happen in movies will happen in real-life situations and circumstances. Although "Twister" had its inaccurate scenes, it was a relatively realistic movie and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

This was one of the movies I frequently watched as a kid, and took real interests in tornadoes from a kid's perspective. Of all the movies ever made, this movie seems to be one of the better known movies that is still frequently watched today, 20-years later. When I think of tornadoes I think back to this movie as I'm sure a lot of us do. This movie introduced me as a kid to the different scales of tornadoes. I didn't know there was a different scale of tornadoes, and a lot of people I knew didn't seem to know it at the time. Now, it seems like it's common knowledge that there are different tornado scales. Also, this is arguably Bill Paxton's most memorable movie, and I want to say R.I.P. Bill Paxton.You can watch this movie and be amazed by the action, showing the destructive power of tornadoes. This movie also takes place in rural Oklahoma, so we get views of that area. This movie also has a plot to it besides just chasing tornadoes and escaping them. A main plot of this movie is trying to get a tornado instrument in the air that analyzes tornadoes, Dorothy. It can also make us ask if tornado chasers really get this close to a tornado?This movie is entertaining, and well-remembered but it has it's flaws. One of the flaws is it is a long movie, almost 2 hours long. I'm sure if we watch the movie, we watch it for the tornadoes. The tornado scenes are breath-taking action that will keep us entertained. A lot of the other scenes tornadoes aren't in, aren't entertaining and we see the characters on a long drive in rural Oklahoma, using maps before GPS was common.Another flaw of the movie is I feel like the movie doesn't have likable characters or character development. We might like Helen Hunt as Jo in this movie, but there is nothing really interesting about the characters, aside from being tornado chasers. These aren't characters you'd care to see in a sequel. It just seems like a team of tornado chasers, that there isn't much to know about them. The only characters you can really name are: Jo, Bill, Melissa, Dusty, Jonas, and Meg. There's nothing really interesting about the rest of the characters, and another plot of this movie is seeing how Jo and Bill work together after filing for divorce. Can they get their relationship back?I also want to say that it's too bad they vilify the character Jonas. Jonas was played by Cary Elwes who plays the likable character Westley in a movie we've all seen, The Princess Bride. He also played Robin Hood in Robin Hood Men In Tights, a funny movie. Too bad they had to vilify him, and not like he's a bad guy, but the movie just makes him an enemy when there's a contest between him and Bill, a character we're supposed to like.All in all, this is an entertaining movie. But, because of the lack of character development or interesting likable characters, mostly just filling a role for the movie to work with this plot with little background information, I give this movie a 7/10. It still is entertaining and very good, but it has these flaws.

I usually love disaster films because with a solid and believable plot, they can be quite thrilling and intriguing; I do feel this movie was one of the flops in the disaster movie category, to be blatantly honest. So predictable! Hardly believable. The tornado always cleared up literally JUST as it passes them, every time! What are the odds, hey? The scattered chunks of debris that consistently kept missing these two love-birds/storm chasers by centimeters to meters was astounding! It was starting to become very repetitive. Little to no character development, so growing attached to any of the characters is out of the question; if there happened to be any loss of life in the film, it wouldn't affect the viewer at all. Not the mention the acting was rather ordinary, to say the least. The main thing that bothered me in this film was one of the final scenes, where Dr. Jo Harding and Bill Harding are strapped tightly to a pipe in a tiny shack, and this massive F5 tornado rips through and goes straight over top of them, and they walk away afterward with not a single scratch. I might be just being overly realistic with this film, but that's a little much for me. If a tornado that has been collecting debris its entirely journey picked you up, chances are that you wouldn't survive it because you'd be shredded by rapidly moving debris; it wouldn't be a pleasant sight, that's for sure! I was quite disappointed with this film because disaster movies are some of my favorites to date. I guess any movie is worth a watch at least once though, right? -shrugs- Once is enough here. 4/10

"Twister" is an entertaining movie, despite it being from 1996, and it still does hold up its own even today. The movie is predictable, yes, but still offers good entertainment. I actually do believe that "Twister" is the first disaster movie that I watched that actually left a lasting impression.The story is straight forward; a group of hurricane researchers and scientists are crossing USA, tracking twisters in the name of science, coming in with very different backstories. But they are in a very turbulent field of science and right in the eye of the storm, so to speak.There is a great, continuous flow to the movie and there isn't really a dull or boring moment throughout the entire movie.For a movie from 1996, then the effects were quite good. Of course they falter by today's standard, but they serve their purpose quite well and do pass as believable, which is what matters the most.What is most impressive, however, is the impressive array of actors and actresses that they had on the cast list. A list which includes Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck and of course the fabulous Jeremy Davies."Twister" is the type of movie that everyone has seen at one point or another, and it does have enough contents to actually sustain multiple viewings. For some reason, it just doesn't get old.