I was told by a couple sources on the internet that the new movie, “Twisters” was not woke. I was told that it was pretty good. The wife, and I were fans of the original move, “Twister” so we went to see it. We were disappointed by the last third of the movie. This review does have spoilers. If you want to avoid them, you can stop reading now since I’ve divulged that the movie was woke to a degree that ruined the film for us.
For everyone who cares to read on, and encounter spoilers, please continue. The first two thirds of the movie were building to something. The main female character was learning how to get over her past. The lead male character was becoming more than a seemingly self-centered adrenaline junky. He was beginning to care for the female lead. They portrayed the male lead as a former bull rider, and meteorology student. He chases tornados for youtube followers, or something to that effect. The land developing bad guy’s reason for employing the antagonist’s character’s efforts was very convoluted. The female lead was a weak character, and the actress had no onscreen spark. She seemed two dimensional. Her character was swaying back, and forth between the horror of her past experience with tornados, and her desire to help people by finding a way to stop tornados. The male lead gets interested in her, and immediately goes from adrenaline junky cowboy manly man to simp in one visit to her single mom’s farm. For the rest of the movie, he is neutered. At the end there is a gigantic tornado that is going to destroy a town. The people are taking shelter in a movie theater. The man and woman are looking out the door at the tornado. He turns his back to her for a second, and she runs out to his truck, drives into the tornado. He stands in the door yelling after her. The other people try telling him to help them with the people in the theater to move them to the back. He is frozen in shock for a moment then goes to help them while boss girl drives into the center of the tornado, and uses her plan to turn it off. It works. She saves everyone just in the nick of time before her love interest, and friends are sucked up into the tornado.
It would have made so much more sense, if at the moment they were at the door looking at the tornado, he turns to her and says, “This is it! Your plan is the only way we can save these people. We have to do it.” She looks shaken, and frightened, but his bravery helps her be brave. She looks at him, and nods. They both run for the truck, and kill the tornado together, while helping eachother, and saving all the people. The end could have been more romantic as well. We were very disappointed in the feminism that corrupted this movie.
The other offense was the implication of climate change being the problem even though it wasn’t directly, specifically cited. There wasn’t any nudity. There was some profanity. The acting was meh. They guy who played the lead needs some masculine lead character rolls where he can be the toxic avenger we are all waiting for. He did a good job in, “Maverick.” We were hoping for more with this movie.
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