The disaster thriller starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones delivers heart amid the chaos.
Kate Cooper is a meteorologist who survived a deadly tornado that claimed the lives of her colleagues. The incident has soured storm-chasing for her, but her old friend and fellow survivor Javi lures her into taking one more job by assuring her that her work will save lives. On the tornado-blighted plains of Oklahoma, she meets Tyler Owens , a social media influencer who chases fame with as much energy as he chases storms.
This movie borrows so many story elements from the 1996 original, it feels more like a remake than a sequel. There is also a romantic sub-plot that that becomes painfully obvious the second a smirking Powell, the Hollywood It Guy of the moment, walks into the frame. And of course, there is the idea of a monster, unpredictable and unseen, living in the clouds.
He steps up to this big-budget project after the success of Minari . The Oscar-nominated drama was his semi-autobiographical take on his boyhood as the child of immigrants who moved from South Korea to rural America.Chung’s sensitive drama about finding footing in a strange land has almost nothing in common with the disaster movie, other than that both are set in an area where nature upsets the best-laid plans of humans.
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