Tornado

Name: Tornado
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: May 30, 2025
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 57

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IFC Films | Release Date: May 30, 2025 | R

Summary: Set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, Tornado is a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father's travelling puppet Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman, and his ambitious son Little Sugar. In an attempt to create a new life forSet in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, Tornado is a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father's travelling puppet Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman, and his ambitious son Little Sugar. In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take matters into her own hands and steal the gold from their most recent heist. With her father murdered by the gang and her life in grave danger, Tornado races against time to escape a violent demise and avenge her father's death.… Expand

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Hanna Flint

May 29, 2025

With a blistering score and a darkly comic undercurrent, Tornado is a timeless revenge thriller filled with hurt and heart. Read full review

Andrew Crump

May 29, 2025

It’s more that the specific combination of jidaigeki period piece, highland character study, and frontier justice that’s new, making Tornado a harrowing, blustery, violent amalgamation of an idiosyncratic spirit. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

May 29, 2025

Tornado is an undeniable success as a slow-burn, blood-soaked historical tragedy, both mournful and amoral, but it’s also a quietly fascinating exploration of identity and reinvention. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jun 12, 2025

Tornado will frustrate the giblets out of anyone seeking narrative momentum or emotional catharsis. But viewers willing to sit with its stark silences and oppressive atmospherics can look forward to a singular, if rarely easy, watch. Read full review

Screen Rant Nadir Samara

Jul 10, 2025

The film does a serviceable job of creating a revenge story, but leaves some meat on the bone in terms of narrative and visuals. Scenes come to a standstill and make a very short movie drag in places it shouldn’t. That being said, the final showdown makes it all worth it. Read full review

David Jenkins

Jun 9, 2025

It’s laudable that Maclean wants to breathe new life into unabashed “B” material, but unfortunately the idiosyncratic touches have usurped rather than bolstered what should be robust, time-honoured noir framework, and we’re left with a film which leaves only a superficial impression and little sense of purpose. Read full review

The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Jun 1, 2025

Pleasant enough to look at but impossible to care about, this movie isn’t bad because it fails at what it sets out to do, but because of the most evil of all reasons: it never figures out its reason to be at all. Read full review

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