The beauty of Jan De Bont’s 1996 blockbuster “Twister” was not that it pushed the boundaries of computer-generated imagery to create incredible, realistic tornados. The beauty was they spent all that money and made all those innovations just to make an old school romantic comedy. “Twister” wasn’t an action epic so much as it was a big budget remake of the Howard Hawks classic “His Girl Friday,” with Helen Hunt in the Cary Grant role, Bill Paxton in the Rosalind Russell role, and the tornados playing the part of the news story they’re chasing down.
Now, the beauty of Lee Isaac Chung’s “Twisters” is that it follows a similar formula.
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