Twister (1996) Critic Reviews

It's hard to dislike a picture with flying cows and oil trucks.Read the full review

A summer crowd-pleaser worthy of its wind.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Hurtling pace, by-the-numbers character development and exotic science. Tornado-chasing suddenly takes on a sex appeal not usually associated with horrendous storms.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

You want loud, dumb, skillful, escapist entertainment? Twister works. You want to think? Think twice about seeing it.Read the full review

Twister not only blows, it sucks, too. Read the full review