Review by theredsox-24635

I had a fun time, don't get me wrong. However, practically nothing about this sequel's production nearly 30 years later was better than the original... crazy and depressing. Lee Isaac Chung has never directed an action film and that sorely showed. The action scenes were awkwardly staged and transitioned into. They also feel very hollow, fake. Not enough debris, real physical objects, and at least at the theater I went to insanely poor surround sound FX. Also a nothing of a soundtrack and score.

Twisters also fell into the sequel trap. While they kept the references to the original nice and non-obvious for the most part, they were just fake and out of place. The most glaring for me were the two chase teams nearly colliding on the road. In the original you have that great scene with the main crew shortcutting through a farm field straight onto the road and nearly hitting their competition. In the sequel they used this near-hit approach twice, but didn't frame either instance of it in a way that made sense for it to happen at all. Also the 3rd wheel "love interest", Ramos' character, to parallel with the original was just terrible and awkward.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I will buy a physical 4k copy. I will watch it multiple times I'm sure. Just a shame the production really didn't come through. For $200m, this should have delivered better VFX, SFX, and basic production elements.