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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense depiction of very bad weather
Starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, and Sean Whalen
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.)
| GENRE(S): | Action | Drama | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Crichton
Anne-Marie Martin |
| DIRECTED BY: | Jan de Bont |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 22, 1997 Video: October 1, 1996 Theatrical: May 10, 1996 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
The film was nominated for two 1997 Academy Awards in the categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
K D gave it a10:
This movie kicks ass from beginning to end. great special effects great action great story, great everything.
Lucy K gave it a9:
This is a successful thriller; action packed, well timed, and great acting.
Saer A. gave it an 8:
Twister has great special effects althought the acting was average by Bill Paxton, but overall its a really good movie.
Gabor A. gave it a 1:
I don't know how, but it was worse than i expected.
Pat C. gave it a 7:
A movie of three dimensions: the basic story line - which is crap, the special effects - which are awesome, and an interspersion of refreshingly quirky elements which while fragrant are not potent enough to overcome the heady stench of formula, but are worth suffering for. For example, the soundtrack is spiced up with offbeat musical selections (Deep Purples Sweet Child in Time) and the climactic scene from The Shining. Melissa (Jami Gertz) comes across as boring and annoying simply because she is the only sane character in the cast. She provides the one spot of class acting in the film. Her caring restrained acceptance, while soaked like a puppy left out in the rain, that she is losing her fiancé and must let him go, is truly touching and, in the context of this film, embarrassingly genuine. The film charges ahead in pursuit of a twisters suck zone, determined to placate viewers with garbage, so Melissa drops from the show halfway along. The improbable and myopic story line proceeds to smother any further deviation from the romantic reunification formula, and tries to evoke absolution-by-tornado as a quest for the comfort of hearth and home, as in the Wizard of Ozs, theres no place like home. What it feels like is the scarecrows lament, if I only had a brain. Once the need to force the plot is disposed of and the good guys are happy happy happy, the film is free to conclude for what it really is, a theme poem about the weather. The most stirring part of the entire movie is during the credits as cumulus clouds pile into the stratosphere to Van Halen guitar licks. Bottom Line: As blockbusters go, good movie. (The Blockbuster Formula requires subtracting 3 points before viewing.) The special effects are better than good. As depicting tornadoes with enhanced authenticity, they are better than perfect.
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