You can imagine the Top Gun-style pitch. Instead of a picture of Tom Cruise in Ray-Bans standing in front of a fighter jet, there is Glen Powell as Tyler (coincidentally also one of Cruise’s fellow hotshot pilots in Top Gun: Maverick) standing in front of a tornado going “yee ha!” the way storm chasers do.
Kate is schlepping trauma from a previous encounter with a fatal twister. Tyler, meanwhile, turns out to have hidden depths. After a mutually insulting banter, they collaborate to make America’s plains safer for mankind while the tornados rock up with incredible regularity even for a superheated climate.
The spectacle doesn’t disappoint. However, narratively speaking director Lee Isaac Chung’s film is as memorable as a breeze.
