The forecast for Twisters was not good.

As a half-sequel, half-reboot of a largely forgotten mid-’90s post-production-adventure-drama – the kind you went to see mostly for the special effects, partly for the charms of Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt – it seemed destined to join the likes of Jurassic World or Independence Day: Resurgence, long-after follow-ups that no one was asking for, and that struggled to compete with their progenitors.