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Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

  • Starring: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt
  • Summary: The largest storm to hit Oklahoma in more than half a century is brewing, and it promises to drop multiple twisters into Tornado Alley. It's the storm that two rival groups of scientists have been waiting for to earn their place in meteorological history. (Warner Bros.)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. It's hard to dislike a picture with flying cows and oil trucks.
  2. Reviewed by: Ian Nathan
    80
    This film encompasses everything that is both grating and great about the blockbuster. It gives scant regard to character depth or dialogue while still being a must-see hoopla of computer trickery that weakens the knees and raises the neck-hairs.
  3. Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    60
    Extreme-weather buffs, thrill-ride junkies and anyone else in search of mindless entertainment need look no further.
  4. Big swirls of computer-generated dirt, a bickering couple and the dead certainty that the fiancee will leave and the bickerers will get back together. An exciting night out, or what?

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. KD
    10
    This movie kicks ass from beginning to end. great special effects great action great story, great everything.
  2. May well be the best film ever made, everything about it is amazing you love storms or tornadoes then twister is for you! also the special effects in this film are superb outstanding and still show up well today despite the film being made in 1996 Collapse
  3. j30
    5
    Aw the good old Jan de Bont days filed with good special effects and well not much else. First Speed (pretty awesome), then Twister (pretty OK), then Speed: Cruise Control (oh God no), then The Haunting (make it stop!), then finally Lara Croft (I've lost faith in humanity). That pretty much sums it up right there. Expand
  4. Lots of cliches and suffers from deus ex machina, the only thing that i found enjoyable about this movie is it's special effects, which were great for it's time, other than that, not recommended. Expand

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