Max's Top 1 Movie Is Masterpiece Disaster Flick With 91% on RT & Top Gun Star

Max's Top 1 Movie Is Masterpiece Disaster Flick With 91% on RT & Top Gun Star
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It's a remake that we really needed.

Twister was a Jurassic Park-like phenomenon: a compelling disaster movie about two women who can't share Bill Paxton among flying houses and cows.

Thanks to good acting, a solid script and, most importantly, stunning special effects in every sense of the word, the movie still looks pretty good today, almost 30 years later.

Twisters Is a Worthy Remake of the Cult Film

The first and most pleasant news about any release in the era of endless remakes: recently released Twisters is virtually free of intrusive fan service and does not try to make you cry with meaningful cameos. Maybe that's why it's now a top 1 movie on Max.

Lee Isaac Chung's catastrophic hodgepodge is perceived as an independent film with one "but": the blockbuster patiently adheres to the dogmas of 90s genre cinema, in which very beautiful people struggle with very ugly circumstances and inevitably fall in love against all odds.

What Is Twisters About?

Meteorology student Kate, her boyfriend, and some friends chase tornadoes around their home state of Oklahoma for a project: she came up with the idea of spraying a mixture inside a tornado that could theoretically destroy it.

Nature wins – three people die, including her boyfriend, and the only one left alive besides Kate is Javi. Five years later, he finds her in New York at her office job and convinces her to go back into the field for a week.

It's tornado season in Oklahoma and Javi has a big team and serious funding. The first thing they encounter on the ground is a group of YouTubers led by cowboy meteorologist Tyler.

Twisters Shifts the Focus and Makes the Idea Itself Feel Fresh

The movie is predictable enough to feel comfortable and unexpected enough not to be upsetting. The main character's trauma doesn't make Kate freeze or suffer panic attacks, but rather provokes her to fight and move forward.

The shift in emphasis makes Twisters more conscious: the motivations of the main characters have changed. As in the cult film Speed, Jan de Bont tells the story of adrenaline junkies who can't afford to live quietly and have to spend their allotted eternity chasing.

Kate and Tyler are people who want to overcome their fear at all costs and decide to do something that scares them to the point of trembling.

Twisters portrays tornadoes not only as enemies, but also as magical sacraments of nature – the approaching funnels are reminiscent of the advance of the dementors in the Harry Potter films.

But the real magic is the chemistry between Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, who make you want to catch every tornado with them.