A wondrous reminder that, sometimes, it's nice to fool with Mother Nature. From the safety of your theater seat, that is.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

It's fast, it's ferocious and it's also very funny. Even as it takes your breath away, this film makes you laugh your head off.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 16, 2024

Twister swirls in as the first of the big summer movies, a beautifully shot action picture with heart-stopping effects. It's by and for adrenaline junkies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

It's a grand, thrilling subject. But the movie doesn't really treat its theme seriously. Instead, as directed by Jan De Bont and co-written and co-produced by Michael Crichton, Twister is unabashed entertainment, an undemanding, full-speed-ahead joyride.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

Twister outdoes Jurassic Park in its lack of narrative momentum, its incoherent logic, and its utter contempt for characterisation.

| Jul 16, 2024

In the wrong hands apocalypse can be deadly -- deadly dull, that is -- but when it comes to cheap thrills, Jan De Bont is up there with the best.

| Jul 16, 2024

Within the funnel of Twister's exciting illogic and formula humanity -- created by the extraordinarily successful and equally insubstantial Michael Crichton -- lies a lot of standard-issue stuff.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

The movie, of course, is preposterous. But Twister is also irresistible -- absurdly exciting and entertaining -- and though I didn't believe a single thing in it, and some of it made me cringe, I had a great time.

| Jul 16, 2024

Watching estranged spouses Jo and Bill re-bond as they pursue killer tornadoes across Oklahoma is so much giddy fun that, once you let loose the grip of your critical faculties, you'll be gone with the wind.

| Jul 16, 2024

Twister shows how digital technology has transformed special effects, but it's still a new twist on an old formula, a movie that dispenses lots of thrills -- big ones, loud ones -- while dispensing with smart.

| Jul 16, 2024

Like a tornado, Twister is a creation of momentum, a perfectly brainless beast that evokes slack-jawed awe for its stunning spectacle and then completely disappears.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2024

It's both a reminder of the majestic power of nature and a stunning testament to the astonishing state of the art of special effects in filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2024

As pure spectacle, Twister sets out to leave you breathless. If it dawdles on the ground, it'll blow you away when the winds kick up.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2024

The tornado-whipped cows, houses, and tractor-trailers are a tribute to the kids in the special-effects room. But for summer-movie adrenaline junkies, this noisy thriller provides surprisingly little liftoff; we're turned on by debris.

| Original Score: B | Jul 16, 2024

There are so many things blowing around in Twister it’s little wonder that nothing ever sticks. But then, Twister is about as focused as a monsoon: it has none of the razorback grace of director Jan de Bont’s 1994 hit Speed, and little of the wit.

| Jul 16, 2024

Director Jan "Speed" De Bont made his debut with a film in which a bus had more character than the humans. But at least the humans were not vapid enough to be distracting. Here the characterisation is worse than perfunctory, it is patronising.

| Jul 16, 2024

Twister delivers (in spades) what it intends while never aspiring to be anything more than a rollercoaster ride. If you don't expect golden memories, you'll get plenty of thrills.

| Jul 16, 2024

It's a rare blockbuster that makes a good case for throwing a lot of money at a subject, but in Twister everything seems right.

| Jul 16, 2024

The story, the script and the characters are as inconsequential as a mild spring breeze -- but the special effects will blow you away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2024

The film tries to keep a straight face about the terrible damage done by tornadoes, the need t give people more warning, but joy in mayhem is just too strong.

| Jul 16, 2024