Highly Overrated But Still Good

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Night of the Twisters was my first movie ever watched based on a natural weather event that could occur realistically. At the time I first watched this at 7-10 years old, it was an incredible movie. I would literally not stop watching the movie every school night before bed. Now that I am older (25 years old now), I went back through and watched the movie over again a couple of times one night, back almost a month and a half ago. Through watching the film again, I was better able to identify issues. Like how the story line went, it was one that was not set in stone to follow storm chasers and their quest to breakthrough on research. It did contain one storm chaser, and one meteorologists communicating back and forth on the storm patterns. The movie starts off with said storm chaser opening on a country road, when he identifies a spinning funnel cloud in an unusual area that was not susceptible to tornadoes at this time of year. The most intriguing part is watching how they fax things in the SUV of the chaser. Due to the fact today, you get caught faxing in a situation, not just in a car, but something similar to it, people would think you didn't know how to live in today's world of printers, computers, and technology.The cast was very well played, and we get a glimpse of the older clothes worn back in the day of the 1990s, at least they had some sense not to sag their pants all the time, and dressed without all these holes, and other riff-raff. Moving along with the review, the biggest flaw this film had really no sense of the way a tornado looks or moves, however detailing the damage of a tornado 90% on. Yes, this is February 1996 when this film released and not all the best animation or graphics had been invented yet. However, not even about 3 more months down the road in May of 1996, a movie titled, Twister, portrayed the violent spinning funnels of tornadoes, in an almost eye-for-eye shape, sound, and color to properly give the perception of how a tornado may look realistically. Overall, as I have gotten older, Night of the Twisters does not appeal too much to me as it used too, however it is still an awesome classic movie, that I will watch even as I continue to age.FINAL SUMMARY OF NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS 1996 - Overall RATING: 6/10 Storyline/Synopsis: 7.5/10 Graphics and Animations: 4/10 Actors and Actresses: 9/10

Night of the Twisters is a 1996 film based on the book of the same name written by Ivy Ruckman. It is about a family trying to survive a series of deadly tornado attacks.I first saw this film way back in 1998 by renting the VHS tape after I had read the book. This was also my first film that introduced me to Devon Sawa (who is a phenomenal actor by the way!) The film is based on the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Even through it takes place Dannebrog, Nebraska, it was actually filmed in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada.The film has a great cast from Devon Sawa as Dan Hatch (he was also in Idle Hands, The Boys Club, and Final Destination), Amos Crawley as Arthur Jones (who is best known as Chuck Greene from the Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask episodes), and Laura Bertram as Stacey Jones (from Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes).The film was released on VHS by GoodTimes Video and later released on DVD by the same company (the DVD is really rare.) The movie is better then the book IMO. I give Night of the Twisters a 7 out of 10.

When I first watched Night of the Twisters I was a much a younger person and it made an impact on me. Now that I'm older, I find myself still enjoying this movie.Yes, it can be silly and predictable but I truly enjoyed it. It does help to know that the "theme" was true and the tornado outbreak was real. The account of the family was a bit hokey but I like the characters.I guess I'm not as jaded as some and just enjoy a good family movie once in awhile. If you simply accept the movie for what it is and aren't expecting an Oscar winner, I think you'll enjoy it.

Night of the Twisters is a very good film that has a good cast which includes Devon Sawa, Amos Crawley, John Schneider, Lori Hallier, Laura Bertram, David Ferry, Helen Hughes, Jhene Erwin, Alex Lastewka, Thomas Lastewka, Megan Kitchen, and Graham McPherson. The acting by all of these actors is very good. The special effects and thrills is really good and some of it is surprising. The movie is filmed very good. The music is good. The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end. This is a very good and thrilling film. If you like Devon Sawa, Amos Crawley, John Schneider, Lori Hallier, Laura Bertram, David Ferry, Helen Hughes, Jhene Erwin, the rest of the cast in the film, Action, Mystery, Thrillers, Dramas, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!