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Twisters (2024)

 

Twisters is a beat-for-beat retelling of the movie Twister but with some obvious updates.

Oscar nominee, Lee Isaac Chung took the reigns to direct this reboot/remake. He directed Minari which I highly recommend. He also wrote that movie too, where he had Mark L. Smith write the screenplay, and Joseph Kosinski write the story. Smith's writing is all over the place with The Revenant being great, while Overlord is not. Twisters takes what it can from the original source but the dialogue and delivery could be better with certain characters.

The elephant in the room is Anthony Ramos, who has yet to have a good acting performance. He was the worst actor in Hamilton and tried way too hard in Dumb Money. He can't deliver the lines or the character arch that was written for him. It's very hard to root for his character growth when he can't deliver it.

Daisy Edgar-Jones plays the main character. She, like the first movie, has to deliver some really heartbreaking lines of emotion and passion that anyone who saw the first film will expect and appreciate. She lands those lines and delivers. You might remember her from Where the Crawdads Sing. 

Glen Powell reminds me a lot of a young Tom Cruise, not in his appearance but in his delivery of charm and charisma. He was even in Top Gun: Maverick as some sort of torch-passing. He was also in Anyone But You, which had many flaws but he still did okay. He'll be playing The Running Man which at the time of writing is in pre-production. So that's exciting.

It had a rocky start and a questionable ending. The movie lands short of a recommendation but is still above average for a 2024 film. Result: B-



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