Better than the ill thought out slop Marvel has been releasing but not close to the heights of the finest entries. There is no story to spoil and the villain is underwhelming. The only spoilers you need to beware of are cameos and pop culture jokes. This is a fan service movie on steroids for long-time fans. It builds on Deadpool 2's finale and then tucks itself into the Disney+ era of Marvel.

No one loves Ryan Reynolds as much as he does but he's okay with that and it works here. The Deadpool franchise is about extreme violence, winks to the camera, meta-narrative dialogue, X-Men references and Wade Wilson growing as a person. The first movie did it best, with Wade trying to figure things out. Now he has figured it out he realises it sucks. He's in a mid-life rut.

What's the cure for a mid-life rut? Five pop culture references a minute, a lot of blood, bullets and discarded parts of the 20th Century Fox Marvel timeline. Hugh Jackman represents the most impressive part of Fox Marvel movies and has grown into Wolverine the longer he's been at it. Footage of the fresh-faced mutant in the original X-Men movie makes you wonder how he pulled it off in the first place. The Jackman of today has the on-screen presence his younger self did not.

The weakest part of the movie is Emma Corrin's bland villain of the week. She's very Disney+. Highlighting, once again, Marvel's difficulty in making a villain more than a story obstacle. Like a locked door. You shouldn't think too much about them because you won't see them again after the credits roll.

The flat looking cinematography, a side effect of digital filming, means you can watch this at home. But if you're looking for a reason to visit the cinema this is as compelling a reason as you'll get this summer.

The good news is dumb big budget disaster movies are back. The bad news is the same as the good news. Twisters has a lot in common with the 1996 original. The plot is nonsense, the characters are paper thin and you'll never think about the movie again after seeing it.

Unlike the Jan de Bont movie with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton the leads here have no chemistry. Something I put on Daisy-Edgar Jones as Glen Powell had chemistry with several co-leads in past films. He has good chemistry with Maura Tirney in this movie. And she's onscreen for five minutes and plays Daisy's mother. The romance in this movie is undercooked and there isn't even a hint of comedy. After hours in the cinema I still did not understand why these two stay together at the conclusion.

As a big disaster movie this is well done on the big screen. The tornadoes are chaotic, large and have good effects. The tornado chasing is high energy, with the more professional types engaging in juvenile races with those wacky live streaming storm chasers. One side is doing it for nefarious profit, the other for the love of it and that sweet YouTube ad money.

The storm chasers are walking clichés. Some get sucked into a vortex and are never seen again but they don't matter so meh. That sums up the movie. Meh. If you want a better romantic comedy with decent stunt work that came out this year you should watch The Fall Guy instead.

The bar has been set that low this summer.