
The best thing that I can say about Lee Isaac Chung’s (
Minari, Munyurangabo)
Twisters is that it does very well at what it tries to do. In his first film since earning an Academy Award nomination for 2020’s
Minari, Chung takes on a film that couldn’t feel any more different.
Twisters is not a sequel or reboot to the commercially successful
Twister, which earned $495 million worldwide, or more than five times its budget of $92 million. The 1996 movie was one of the most-hyped and anticipated movies in years, with its trailers ahead of their time and two of the newest Hollywood A-listers in Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. Despite its commercial success, it had p
oor Rotten Tomatoes critics (66%) and audience (58%) scores.
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Suffering from similar fates as other 2020 films such as
News of the World, Land, and
Nomadland is Lee Isaac Chung’s breakthrough
Minari. This movie tells a familiar story in a way that is unique but ultimately ineffective. I say that tongue-in-cheek because my favorite film of the year (at the time of this post) is
News of the World, which fails to escape many of the traps these other three movies fall into. And that’s not even to say that
News of the World is a great film. It’s a very good film that earned quite an affinity in a reasonably drab 2020.
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