Tornado: this samurai-western immigrant revenge tale tries to be many things – but runs out of ammo

By Chi-Yun Shin, Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, Sheffield Hallam University

Tornado is many things: a British period drama, a western, a samurai film, a coming-of-age story and an origin story. Set in the windswept moorland of Britain in 1790, the film offers a lawless backdrop fit for a western, with no visible sign of the industrial revolution that began some three decades prior.

Its Wuthering Heights-esque wilderness, serenely captured by the cinematographer Robbie Ryan conjures up an almost otherworldly look.
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