Twisters is another one of those movies where the original never really warranted a sequel but we ended up with one regardless and in a similar vein to Top Gun, the sequel holds up much like the original.
Certainly not a film anyone wanted to see a sequel to with the original being a stellar disaster movie and whilst Twisters does play out much like a tornado in which it ramps up and then just randomly drops out for the most part it’s quite a fun watch.
Corny performances aplenty sees Twisters play out like a Hallmark movie at times but thankfully it more than makes up for the cheesiness with some incredible VFX work and this is one film that I regret not watching in IMAX.
With the rampant weather conditions, cool soundtrack and insane visuals an IMAX screening of Twisters would have been stunning as opposed to the small local cinema experience I had where my friend’s recliner chair was quite literally falling apart as though a tornado had just ripped straight through it before we entered the auditorium.
It was at this moment that I realised what mistake I had made. A few weeks ago our site correspondent Brent Simon brought us this staggering review of Twisters which you can read here but with no IMAX cinemas in the local Stoke on Trent area I had no choice but to watch it on a normal screen.
I’m not quite sure what’s happening at my local Newcastle Under Lyme Vue cinema but the screen was falling apart, the picture was quite blurry and the seats themselves were covered in sticky substances much like a 4DX show had played out in the cinema before we came in.
Stoke was set to get its very own IMAX cinema but sadly the powers that be unfortunately didn’t get it built and the IMAX went elsewhere but with a film like Twisters I was so disappointed just sitting there watching a blurry screen and horrendous audio trying to enjoy the film in the face of adversity of the technology displaying it.
There are a few little comedy moments in Twisters that keep you laughing throughout the more intense scenes of complete obliteration and the shocking realisation of the sheer power of this natural occurrence and the sheer power and devastation it causes as it rips through local towns leaving a path of wake and destruction behind.
For me the visual effects within Twisters far outweigh any story, it’s a little surface level to say the least but whilst the dialogue is a little hit and miss there’s still a good connection with our main characters and we genuinely care about them which is a rare thing to do in a surface level film, to dive beneath the surface and connect them to the audience on a deeper level.
The camera work is spot-on and Twisters can stand proudly as one of the better disaster movies out there, it wasn’t perfect but it certainly blew me away and I urge you to see it in IMAX!
Picture quality is paramount for a film like Twisters and the audio is just a sheer ambient and immersive soundscape of one of nature’s most powerful occurences.
Brent had the right idea… go and see this in IMAX and ONLY IMAX!
