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Die Meteorologin Jo Harding und ihr Ex-Mann Bill haben eine neue Sonde zur Erforschung von Tornados entwickelt. Um ihre Erfindung zu testen, müssen sie möglichst nahe an einen der gefährlichen Wirbelstürme herankommen.
Lange Zeit waren Bill Harding und seine Frau Jo ein eingeschworenes Team. Die beiden Meteorologen haben sich auf die Erforschung von Wirbelstürmen spezialisiert und gemeinsam eine Sonde namens Dorothy entwickelt, mit der sich die gefährlichen Naturkatastrophen besser vorhersagen lassen sollen. Doch nun stehen die beiden kurz vor der Scheidung. Bill hat sich in die Therapeutin Melissa verliebt und will mit ihr ein neues Leben beginnen. Gerade als er die Scheidungspapiere von Jo unterschreiben lassen will erfährt Bill, dass Dorothy endlich einsatzfähig ist und zum ersten Mal getestet werden soll. Das kann er sich natürlich nicht entgehen lassen. Der waghalsige Versuch, die Sonde genau im Zentrum eines Tornados zu platzieren, schlägt jedoch fehlt. Davon lassen sich Bill und Jo allerdings nicht entmutigen. Vor allem, da ihr Ex-Kollege Jonas Miller eine ähnliche Sonde nach Bills Plänen konstruiert hat und nun versucht, den Ruhm für die neue Erfindung selbst einzustreichen. Beim nächsten Wirbelsturm kommt es zum Wettlauf zwischen den beiden rivalisierenden Forscherteams.
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Ein intelligentes und schwungvolles Abenteuer voller Leben mit sehr sympathischen Hauptfiguren (und Schauspielern). Es ist aber die Frage, wen man dafür loben soll. Wahrscheinlich alle gleich. Die Produktion-Hand von Steven Spielberg kann man hier nicht übersehen. Der Regisseur Jan de Bont hat seine Kameramann-Fähigkeiten genutzt und das Team der visuellen Effekte hat schöne Tornados gemacht. Diese sind doch die Haupthelden des Films!
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Those were the times when Jan de Bont could still direct and rightly was considered (albeit briefly) one of the best action directors of all time. Twister is a brilliantly balanced mix of healthy exaggeration, great action, and a touch of romance on top. The skillfully assembled cast, lead by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, provide the family atmosphere, the visual effects are stunning (the flying cow is legendary), as well as the sound design, and the final scene with the gigantic tornado is absolutely gripping. Naturally, this summer blockbuster doesn’t avoid clichés and light stereotyping, but if they are reasonable, then there's no problem. And Twister is exactly that beautiful, light, and enjoyable commercial entertainment for a wide audience spectrum.
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Given that Jan De Bont hasn’t directed many films, one cannot deny his unhealthy hyperactivity once he sits in the director's chair. Even the direction of grand digital spectacles requires a steady hand - Roland Emmerich could testify to that. De Bont thoroughly indulges in the whirlwind of tornadoes he serves up and at the same time uses them to mask the stagnant story at point zero, penned by Michael Crichton. The heaps of stereotypical scenes and characters drawn from the most run-of-the-mill corners of Crichton's imagination, maybe intentionally, maybe unintentionally, drag down the result of De Bont's work. As an example, take a look at the equipment of the rival tornado hunters. Joe and Bill ride in rundown vans, while rival teams speed down roads and dirt tracks in modern black jeeps, with their crew members dressed in grey uniforms. The characters' traits, lightly sketched at the beginning, remain unchanged throughout the entire film. Their behavior is predictable, similar to Speed, but that film wasn’t as rough as this, which might be due to the fact that there are many more characters in this film than in De Bont's debut. A proper disaster movie needs proper music. The catastrophic nature of the film (in terms of grandeur) can be successfully questioned, but the bombast of Mark Mancini's soundtrack certainly cannot. One can easily dismiss Bill Paxton's overacting and Helen Hunt's attempt at acting without any worries because this film is not about the actors. It's all about enjoying it, but watching two hours of black holes destroying everything that comes their way also requires some patience from the audience. If they had cut out the pseudo-story fluff called solving a marital crisis, I wouldn't hesitate to give it five stars.
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A template rehearsed a thousand times, only that the mutated beasts has been replaced by a natural phenomenon. The script is full of clichés, the resolution of Helen Hunt's emotional problems did not interest me, but the amazing visual effects (for the time) save the day. Three points for the tornado and another one for the flying cow :)
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A hearty portion of unadulterated Hollywood entertainment that rides hellishly straight from the opening minutes, while also managing to make its characters into little more than artefacts of respectable heroism (although it gets very close to that by the end). The adrenaline master Jan de Bont, with Steven Spielberg as producer, is very much felt here; hand in hand with the great actors, the even better visual effects and a script not so stupid as to turn the delicious form into heartless and gratuitous audiovisual masturbation. Cheaper, yet intoxicating and effective cinematic art... 85%
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