U Turn (1997)

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• Tsubaki S

  
  Many ripped this one, and while you can easily point a bunch of really annoying things going on (Lopez character and Penn beign tricked again and again) this is an enjoyable romp for us who prefer more acid and less optimistic stories. Not to mention that compared with what Stone has… More
  Many ripped this one, and while you can easily point a bunch of really annoying things going on (Lopez character and Penn beign tricked again and again) this is an enjoyable romp for us who prefer more acid and less optimistic stories. Not to mention that compared with what Stone has being doing in the last years, it's gold.

• Conner R

  
  An amazing Neo-Noir/Western that's almost impossible to not enjoy on at least some level. The story is incredibly well-written and the characters are perfectly twisted. Sean Penn delivers a great performance as Bobby Cooper, in debt and in need of a break. There's also soe… More
  An amazing Neo-Noir/Western that's almost impossible to not enjoy on at least some level. The story is incredibly well-written and the characters are perfectly twisted. Sean Penn delivers a great performance as Bobby Cooper, in debt and in need of a break. There's also soe great supporting performances from Billy Bob Thorton, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix to name a few. It's very much the same kind of irony that is present in most Noirs, that you never get off easy. It's also one of the best shot Oliver Stone movies, but that tends to be the case with every single one of his movies. I loved the use of over-exposure and 16mm film every once in a while.

• Anthony L

  
  Underrated film, it?s one of my favourite Stone pictures!

• Chris W

  
  Lurid and Excessive. These two words perfectly describe this film. They also perfectly describe Stone's earlier film Natural Born Killers. Where they differ is that NBK is brilliant, and this is just messy. The same problems that plague the film also plagued the source material.… More
  Lurid and Excessive. These two words perfectly describe this film. They also perfectly describe Stone's earlier film Natural Born Killers. Where they differ is that NBK is brilliant, and this is just messy. The same problems that plague the film also plagued the source material. Obviously the fact that John Ridley wrote both the book and the script has something to do with this, and that's very unfortunate. I wanted to like both of them, and became disappointed. Had the story not dragged, and had things been played straight (instead of experimental), then maybe things could have turned out much, much better. However, the performances are really good, despite the fact that they, like everything else, are excessive and over the top. I did like that it was a genre film though, but I wish that the entertainment value outweighed the problems.

• Michael S

  
  Oliver Stone does Lynchian-Peckinpah, and the results are suprisingly good.

• Nani V

  
  Everyone was always so damn sweaty!

• Al S

  
  Worst fucking movie of all time ever

• Saskia D

  
  Billy Bob haha.

• xGary X

  
  Oliver Stone turns his hand from politics to ripping off Quentin Tarantino, and the result is incoherent, nasty and uninvolving. A great cast is wasted trying to breathe life into a bunch of self-conciously oddball cardboard cut-outs and it's all so meandering and unstructured it… More
  Oliver Stone turns his hand from politics to ripping off Quentin Tarantino, and the result is incoherent, nasty and uninvolving. A great cast is wasted trying to breathe life into a bunch of self-conciously oddball cardboard cut-outs and it's all so meandering and unstructured it totally fails to maintain the interest despite the sensationalist subject matter. A total misfire.

• danny d

  
  dirty and completely off the wall, but i was entertained by this flick in some ways.

• Michael G

  
  Amazing and trippy. A lot of incredible supporting performances.

• James A

  
  Jlo gets worked hard and mean.

• Jeffrey M

  
  Being part Twin Peaks, Deliverance, and Basic Instinct, U Turn is one crazy ass, random movie, with plenty of flaws. But I couldn't help but enjoy the ride. An interesting moment in Oliver Stone's overall brilliant career (Alexander notwithstanding).

• Joey N

  
  Oliver Stone does incredibly effective work here, but that might not always be a good thing, considering the source material. Sean Penn (who is really fantastic, btw) is stuck in a middle-of-nowhere Arizona town that's like a nightmarish fun house. But at points i was as… More
  Oliver Stone does incredibly effective work here, but that might not always be a good thing, considering the source material. Sean Penn (who is really fantastic, btw) is stuck in a middle-of-nowhere Arizona town that's like a nightmarish fun house. But at points i was as frustrated as Sean, but I stuck with the movie anyways. Sean Penn's scenes with Claire Danes are by far the funniest. Juaquin Pheonix and Bily Bob Thorton's chacters are easily the most annoying. I had mixed feelings about Jennifer Lopez (who looks really great in this, for the record) at first, but after a certain twist, she comes into her own and we realize the role fits her like a glove. Speaking of twists, there are so many that the plot is truly unpredictable. You won't know what's going to happen next. The final third of the film abadons all the annoying stuff before, and suddenly becomes wickedly entertaining. This is a wild, nasty ride.

• Adam M

  
  Offbeat thriller from Oliver Stone. A drifter(Sean penn) manages to escape the clutches of a group of heavy's he owes money to when he drives randomly into a small town called superior. He manages to upset a few people along the way, including the local mechanic(Billy Bob… More
  Offbeat thriller from Oliver Stone. A drifter(Sean penn) manages to escape the clutches of a group of heavy's he owes money to when he drives randomly into a small town called superior. He manages to upset a few people along the way, including the local mechanic(Billy Bob Thornton), the local wannabe hardman(Joquin Phoenix) and the big businessman with the hot wife(Nick Nolte and Jennifer Lopez). There are plenty of twists and turns along the way with lots of betrayal and some murder as the drifters involvement with the hot wife gets him into all sorts of trouble which is not something he needs as he's got gangsters after him and it seems his car will never be fixed! Threre are some dark laughs to be had too which turns out to be a good thing as U Turn drags on a bit to long which is a shame as this has a great cast, the above as well as cameos from Claire Danes, Powers Boothe and Liv Tyler to. Jennifer Lopez and Sean Penn are great. This was Lopez before she went all J-LO and started doing dodgy rom-coms and Penn is as dependable as ever. A good film though, a bit of an accquired taste maybe, thats let down a bit by the overlong running time.

• Sarah P

  
  I thought this was a great film. I love how it centers on basically one to two days and one setting, but how so much happens. The ending made it all worth it.

• Ivan D

  
  "U Turn" consists of automatic ingredients of a neo-noir: Lost protagonists, femme fatales, and crazy characters. Oliver Stone, still in the mood for the manic visuals of "Natural Born Killers", created the film to look like a cheap Z-grade film. The performances… More
  "U Turn" consists of automatic ingredients of a neo-noir: Lost protagonists, femme fatales, and crazy characters. Oliver Stone, still in the mood for the manic visuals of "Natural Born Killers", created the film to look like a cheap Z-grade film. The performances were all great, but again, what negative thing would you expect from an ensemble cast with the likes of Jon Voight, Joaquin Phoenix, and Nick Nolte for starters. Sean Penn was amazingly delirious in this film, able to embody a less-than-moral man, but one can't help but mysteriously be fascinated and empathize with the character. Even Jennifer Lopez was surprisingly good here. Jon Voight's character, the blind man, appears to be the craziest person in the eyes of Superior inhabitants, but in fact, he is the sanest man in the film, able to weigh decisions that the main characters could not. Oliver Stone is a filmmaker with many detractors, but to take a break from big-budget projects and briefly settle to a small, but great production was very admirable on its own. "U Turn" can appear as a double feature with John Dahl's "Red Rock West", two noirs for the new generation.

• alan j

  
  solid performances...mildly palatable....thanks to the attractiveness of the leads...decent script..simply tends to drag in parts...

• Lee K

  
  I love oliver stone's films this was a little weirder then im used to from him but i am also a huge fan of sean penn so i won on both counts.

• Leo L

  
  Fantastic!

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