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Twister (movie)

8 Ratings: 0.1

Director: Jan de Bont; Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton

An ex-husband-and-wife team of stormchasers rush to be the first to study the dynamics of tornados in America's heartland. The uncredited lead roles are the tornados, created with eye-dazzling computer generated effects. Michael Crichton contributed … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies

Cast: Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Davies, Richard Lineback, Abraham Benrubi, Zach Grenier, see all

Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure

Release Date: 1996, May 10, 1996

MPAA Rating: PG-13

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Not as good as it could have been, but a good ride none the less...

Dec 22, 2009

by Lopez15

Rating:

-3

While it has a good concept and great visual effects "Twister" falls prey to the poor script and acting on the leads behalf. But the only real salvation of this film is it's mind blowing special effects and nail biting tension that it exudes onscreen. Jan de Bont's "Twister" could have been great, it could have been one of the best but it settles too soon for average.

It's more impressive on a technological level than it is as a true disaster story mostly due to the poor character development and the disastrous script, no pun intended. But Twister tries and almost fails to really give you a dramatic and action packed disaster epic but all it succeeds in doing is giving you an adrenalin fueled ride   which is good in all but it doesn't make up completely for the horrendous script and extremely poor acting if it was a documentary about tornadoes I might be more forgiving. But as a film "Twister" does not impress.

Bill Paxton(Who I really don't like) overacts and underplays the character(What little is there.) and the Michael Crichton script far too much to be convincing as a leading man or as an intelligent storm chaser for that matter.Paxton drones on and on he overacts through the whole film and totally destroys a solid plot   and makes himself an eyesore the minute he steps onscreen. Helen Hunt is a little better but nowhere near good enough to carry this film on her own she also overacts and underacts far too much and can get quite annoying while she is on screen. But there are some parts where she really does well and that saves her form being a thorn in this pictures side. But all in all the cast doesn't fail to impress they just don't really do much to show there true worth in this picture but some of the supporting cast does some good at keeping this film going but even they can't seem to keep it from falling apart at the most crucial moments.

"Twister" is not good entertainment and it's too well made to be called horrible but it's somewhere in-between average and bad it's for you to deiced which. "Twister" is able to stay afloat thanks to the action and special effects   but everything else falls apart when it needs to stand tall. All in all "Twister" is an A-Bomb.