TWISTERS

Here's the decision. TWISTERS is a big, crowd-pleasing adventure romance — and a rare one that earns all four stars while pointing you somewhere good. Appealing characters, powerful drama, funny moments with lots of heart, a wonderful musical score, and storm scenes that are intense, harrowing and exciting. Better still, its story is genuinely moral: helping people, saving lives, making sacrifices, and finding purpose in service.

It carries a mild caution, not a heavy one. There's some foul language, and the tornado sequences are powerful, destructive and frightening — likely too much for younger children.

So: if you're a teen or an adult who loves adventure with a moral spine, go, and enjoy every minute. If you're choosing for younger kids, hold off — the scares and the language earn this one a caution for older children.

Kate Cooper is a gifted young tornado expert with a groundbreaking idea: a way to make tornadoes dissipate before they destroy. But when a storm proves stronger than she judged, three of her friends die — and Kate walks away from the field, buried in guilt.

Five years later, Javi, the only other survivor of that day, asks her to return to Oklahoma to help track tornadoes with a new radar system. There she meets Tyler, a cocky, thrill-seeking storm chaser. A complicated rivalry begins — and then the storms come.

Four stars, and they're earned. TWISTERS is an outstanding adventure romance that knows how to please a crowd without hollowing out its heart. The characters are appealing, the drama is powerful, and the funny moments land.

The chemistry between Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glenn Powell as Kate and Tyler works well, and veteran actress Maura Tierney brings warmth as Kate's mother. The music is a standout — great country songs and a wonderful score that perfectly complements the story and characters. And the storm scenes deliver: intense, harrowing, exciting spectacle. This is confident, big-hearted filmmaking that gives you your money's worth.

TWISTERS believes in service, and it means it. The story strongly supports helping people survive tragic circumstances rather than taking advantage of them, doing the right thing, and making sacrifices. Its heroine regains her sense of moral purpose — a purpose that involves risking her life for others. That's a very strong moral vision, and it carries genuine Christian and redemptive weight. One character even calls the study of tornadoes a thrilling combination of science and religion.

The redemption runs deeper than the heroine. A man who had been working with a real estate developer to exploit people who've just lost their homes eventually repents and quits. That arc — from profiting off tragedy to walking away from it — is exactly the shape of a changed heart.

The film also carries a warm, patriotic love for the American heartland: the Star-Spangled Banner sung with flags waving proudly at a rodeo, and a positive view of the people who live there. One or two lines of dialogue promote the environmentalist claim that storms, floods and droughts are getting worse — which the source notes the data does not support. Weigh it, but it's a passing note in an otherwise generous film.

Underneath it all is a heroine learning that her life is not for herself. Scripture names that calling plainly: "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13).

TWISTERS is that happy rare thing: a blockbuster that thrills you and points you toward something good — sacrifice, service, and the courage to help people when it costs you. The storms are frightening and the language is a bit rough, so younger kids should sit this one out. For everyone else, it's worth the trip — ages 12 and up.