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sheep233

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It's a pretty good movie. It's got great action and special effects. the twisters are so real looking. But the acting isn't the greatest and none of the characters are very interesting at all. But still it's rarely boring through out the movie.

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Posted jul 14, 2008 12:51 am pt

Reaganfan

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I am suprise that I haven't review this movie til now! Twister is such a great action movie that keep you on the edge of your seat. I think it had a very incredible specail effect when they made a tornado in this movie. It had a great cast with a...
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I am suprise that I haven't review this movie til now! Twister is such a great action movie that keep you on the edge of your seat. I think it had a very incredible specail effect when they made a tornado in this movie. It had a great cast with a very good storyline. If you like action film, I really recommand this movie. I give Twister 4 1/4 stars. By the way I like the flying cow scene. it's a bit funny.

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Posted jun 3, 2008 3:16 am pt

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This movie was so far fetched but I still loved it. For it's time it had great special effects and it was action packed from start to finish. I have to watch this movie at least once a year during tornado season and it is a favorite of mine.

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Posted may 30, 2008 12:57 am pt

jaws2341

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i love tornado movies

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Posted dec 12, 2007 7:46 am pt

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I love this movie!!!! I grew up watching it. Some days I would watch it over and over again so many times that my mom would have to drag me from the TV to eat!:) lol :p The special effects are good. It has some bloopers in it, namely the whole...
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I love this movie!!!! I grew up watching it. Some days I would watch it over and over again so many times that my mom would have to drag me from the TV to eat!:) lol :p The special effects are good. It has some bloopers in it, namely the whole scene with the house. Ever notice how the windshield is totally broken (has a hole on the passenger side) then it is somehow fixed the next second. My boyfriend and I just watched Twister tonight (he is going into storm chasing once we graduate from high school, so he loves this movie as much as I do), and we had fun finding all of the little bloopers and things that the producers hope that people don't pick up on. I have most, if not all of the dialog memorized! I told you I watched this movie A LOT:P

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Posted jul 25, 2007 3:57 pm pt

XiaolinPrincess

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This is a really good movie! I remember seeing this during science one day when we were on the meteorology unit. I had never seen the movie before watching it in science. That movie has kept my attention the whole time; or maybe it was the cow...
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This is a really good movie! I remember seeing this during science one day when we were on the meteorology unit. I had never seen the movie before watching it in science. That movie has kept my attention the whole time; or maybe it was the cow that was "flying" in front of the truck. This is one of the movies that shows that movies from the '90s can still be good.

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Posted jul 1, 2007 3:16 am pt

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This was a pretty crappy flick...After 'Speed' I thought Jan de Bont was gonna knock another one outta the park. How wrong was I? Besides the bad acting and poor plot, there are a ton of things wrong. There is a really annoying trend where they...
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This was a pretty crappy flick...After 'Speed' I thought Jan de Bont was gonna knock another one outta the park. How wrong was I? Besides the bad acting and poor plot, there are a ton of things wrong. There is a really annoying trend where they try to voice over many parts...poorly. Also, they take what has to be one of the coolest jobs ever and fail to make it interesting. Not very good.

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Posted jun 16, 2007 2:31 am pt

Stubob1983

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Best natural disaster movie yet. The acting and dialogue won't win any awards...but come on, if you go to see a movie like is, you shouldn't expect acting or dialogue to be the focal point. It's pure entertainment with great special effects.

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Posted may 10, 2007 12:13 am pt

CTUBauer24

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A truly great weather movie that is awsome the movie has a good story and great effects to go along with it the movies rating is 4 STARS.

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Posted mar 12, 2007 11:16 pm pt

Agreb91

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I saw this as a kid, I loved the entire tornado theme and espicially the red Dodge truck. A pretty good movie if you like tornadoes.

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Posted feb 8, 2007 9:52 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  It's hard to dislike a picture with flying cows and oil trucks.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  It's a keeper, a tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of 24 hours of really, really inclement weather in the Oklahoma heartland.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  88
  A summer crowd-pleaser worthy of its wind.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid to the rush of raw excitement "Twister" creates is that it makes it possible to ignore the painful awkwardness of the film's expository sequences and thudding dialogue of the "OK, boss lady, hold your horses" variety.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Republic
  
  80
  Twister is full of marvelous special effects. The story exists only to provide some respite between those marvels, like dialogue in an opera full of terrific arias. [10 June 1996, p.24]

  by Stanley Kauffmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  This film encompasses everything that is both grating and great about the blockbuster. It gives scant regard to character depth or dialogue while still being a must-see hoopla of computer trickery that weakens the knees and raises the neck-hairs.

  by Ian Nathan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  Hurtling pace, by-the-numbers character development and exotic science. Tornado-chasing suddenly takes on a sex appeal not usually associated with horrendous storms.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Doesn't have any pretensions. It is what it sets out to be: an effective piece of big money, early summer entertainment designed to blow viewers away.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  And for a movie that stars acts of God, this work of mortals provides surprisingly little liftoff. The stuff that whips through the angry skies in Twister is the most exciting part of the spectacle. Essentially, we're turned on by debris.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  70
  Another theme park ride of a movie without an ounce of emotional credibility to it, Twister succeeds on its own terms by taking the audience somewhere it has never been before: into a tornado's funnel.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  The engineering of the special effects is fairly impressive, and the sight of so many objects and creatures being buffeted about carries a certain apocalyptic splendor.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  63
  You want loud, dumb, skillful, escapist entertainment? Twister works. You want to think? Think twice about seeing it.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  Extreme-weather buffs, thrill-ride junkies and anyone else in search of mindless entertainment need look no further.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  Audiences may howl at the hackneyed plot and dialogue, but you won't hear them over the Dolby sound effects assaulting your eardrums at a gazillion decibels.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  40
  The scenes of destruction-apart from being great to watch-provide much-needed relief from these people's unidimensional banalities.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »