This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
Not Her First Rodeo
Plot Overview
Kate Carter (Daisy
Edgar-Jones) moves to field trials in tornado alley her theory of
using barrels of sodium polyacrylate solution (baby diapers)
dumped into tornadoes to reduce their intensity. Her crew includes
fellow storm chasers Javi (Anthony Ramos,) Addy (Kiernan Shipka,)
Praveen (Nik Dodani,) and her boyfriend Jeb (Daryl McCormack.)
Rather than diminish the storm, the storm diminishes them.
Kate moves to an office job (“I
don't chase anymore”) at a national weather monitoring
center in NYC. Javi joins
the military. There he conceives the idea of using its portable phased
arrays & Lagrangian mechanics to get a look inside tornados to
plumb their mysteries, but they have to get close and Kate is the
only one he knows with a real knack for pinpointing their
trajectories. He appeals to her soft side of wanting to save lives
to get her on board for a one week test.
In Oklahoma they encounter YouTube “Tornado Wrangler” Tyler Owens (Glen Powell) and his crew of Boone, Lily, Dexter, and Dani, along with Ben, a greenhorn London journalist come to report. Their methods and goals at first are at odds with each other, but they will find commonalities.
Ideology
The not unexpected romance
that simmers between two leads is so quirky as to be preposterous
were it not for the movie world preparing us for it. Think along the
lines of, (Prov. 30:18-19) “There
be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I
know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon
a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of
a man with a maid.” The writer of this saying in the Good Book
cannot track an eagle drifting on the air currents, a slithering serpent
on a rock, or a ship tossed on the sea, much less “the way of
a man with a maid.”
Instead of an eagle in the sky above
we have a chicken plopping itself down after the storm blows over.
The man is going to have to suddenly set his stake at one point.
Instead of a serpent on a rock we have tornados slithering around the landscape. At one point there are two of them and the chasers have to decide which one is more interesting. Yes, the female protagonist has interest shown her by two fellows. One is a straightforward military type and the other is a maverick. Which one will she pick?
Instead of a ship on the sea, we have a deluge from a town's overturned water tank sweeping everyone along in its path. Here nature and/or fate seem to move the love plot along by force and the participants are helpless to resist.
Production Values
“” (2024) was directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It was written by Mark L. Smith, Joseph Kosinski and Michael Crichton. It stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos. These leads all did fine, with the weather upstaging them all.
MPA rated it PG–13 for intense action and peril, some language and injury images. It shamelessly employed memes from the earlier “Twister” w/o any loss of freshness or cuteness. The material was supremely well suited for the big screen. Runtime is 2 hours 2 minutes.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
For action aficionados this is movie going at its best. It was both realistic and contrived: we could feel the wind but its victims who should be aware of the dangers were remarkably unprepared. What you see is what you get.
Movie Ratings
Action factor: Edge of your seat action. Suitability for Children: Suitable for children 13+ years with guidance. Special effects: Absolutely amazing special effects. Video Occasion: Fit For a Friday Evening. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Four stars out of five.
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