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Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated graphics, cutting edge sound and other special effects are designed to take viewers straight into the roaring funnel of a gigantic tornado. In order to focus on special effects and action, the story is simple and the characters are drawn in broad strokes
May 10, 1996 Wide
Jun 6, 2000
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (51) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (23) | DVD (26)
You know a movie is in trouble when a cow provides its only moment of authentic human interest.
Even more than with most of Michael Crichton's concoctions, this one conveys the overwhelming impression of a mechanical entertainment, a very high concept in which the characters and their problems seem like utterly arbitrary creations.
It looks real, and Director Jan De Bont keeps the action coming so fast there's no time to question it.
An expert in making audiences squirm and twist, at making us feel the rush of experience right along with the actors, De Bont choreographs action and suspense so beautifully he makes it seem like a snap.
A summer crowd-pleaser worthy of its wind.
The movie is wall-to-wall with special effects, and they're all convincing, although it's impossible for me to explain how Bill and Jo escape serious injury while staring right up into the Suck Zone of the Finger of God.
Decent disaster movie for teens.
Extreme-weather buffs, thrill-ride junkies and anyone else in search of mindless entertainment need look no further.
The action starts in the opening frame and never lets up.
Twister has to be one of the most unlikely blockbusters ever, a mediocre movie dressed up in the then novel element of CGI to become all spectacle and no substance.
It may not be fashionable to like Twister, but darn if it isn't an entertaining electro-shock of action cinema.
Surely the only movie to ever suggest a dumbed-down His Girl Friday, Road Runner cartoon, and The Abyss simultaneously
An anorexic premise could've been a great and unusual disaster film if only Twister had taken the courage to keep everything pared down.
When it sticks to kinetically portraying the sheer oddness of the tornadic phenomenon, Twister is a breeze. When it tries to recreate Hawks, it falls gracelessly from the green sky.
...to quibble about the plot of Twister is to miss the whole point of the film. This one is all about looking and listening. (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The plot is thin and the characters are shallow. But who cares! The picture and sound are knockouts.
Twister isn't the brilliant machine that Speed was, but it often packs a comparable wallop.
Effects apart, this is dire: predictable, clichéd, sloppily written, pitifully performed and surprisingly short of real shocks and suspense.
I am going to recommend Twister for three reasons.
Ugh. Not even a passable popcorn pic, I'm afraid.
TWISTER surely is not the best disaster film (come on, rarely does one ever get really good), but it does not deserve all the critical hate it gets, as it is quite decent.If it were just Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, and no cyclones, this would be one hell of a bad film. The acting is terrible, and the three
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
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