Tornado Film Review — the Samurai Spaghetti Western Comes to Georgian Britain

Tornado film review — the samurai Spaghetti Western comes to Georgian Britain

Japanese singer-songwriter Kōki stars as a young woman on the run, with Tim Roth and Jack Lowden supporting

Tornado Review – 'A blood-soaked coming-of-age'

John Maclean’s acclaimed 2015 revisionist Western Slow West brought a Scotsman to the American West. With his second film, Tornado, Maclean takes the Western to Scotland — this time blending elements of a samurai film. This is an evocative portrait of a rugged 1790s Scotland, brought to life by Robbie Ryan’s gorgeous cinematography, which makes striking imagery out of smoke, sun and the browns of dried-out grass. Tornado is about more than viole…