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U Turn (1997) Rank 3 Reviews
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San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)
Oliver Stone's "U-Turn" is film noir seen as a bad acid trip, a bloody black comedy and, of course, another of the director's meditations on the state of America.
Stone says he set out to make a film that was pure entertainment, perhaps fearing that ...read the complete U Turn movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Walter Addiego)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is not having a good day. He's on his way to pay off some bookie-type thugs when his classic Ford Mustang blows a radiator hose and traps him in the small town of Superior, Arizona. He manages to steer the car to a mechanic ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
kids-in-mind
Sean Penn is down on his luck when he gets lost in a weird Arizona town. ...read the complete U Turn movie review at kids-in-mind
filmcritic.com (Blake French)
I can?t imagine U Turn in any director?s hands except Oliver Stone?s. ...read the complete U Turn movie review at filmcritic.com (Blake French)
Jump Cut. Magazin für Film und Kritik
Oliver Stone war lange Zeit das klassische Beispiel eines Filmemachers, der sich selbst beherzt im Wege stand. Alle technische Virtuosität lief immer wieder ins stumpfe Messer des Moralisten und missionarischen Verschwörungstheoretikers. Abscheu und ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Jump Cut. Magazin für Film und Kritik
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Movie Magazine International
Michael Dequina
With that sideshow going on, the thriller side of UTurn seems more of an afterthought, both figuratively and literally; the BobbyGraceJake triangle and its intertwining murder schemes takes finally centerstage with about 40 minutes to go. But Stone ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Michael Dequina
Ted Prigge
"UTurn" is basically a black comedy a la "After Hours," except that it's basically a redo of all those old crap film cliches, like a town where everyone's crooked, there's no industry but a couple convenience stores and diners, and, well, everyone's ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Ted Prigge
Jason Overbeck
Poor Penn, as you can tell by my synopsis, he is banged around like a demented pinball. He goes from frustrating situation to equally frustrating, watching Penn is fun as you see a man on the edge given continuous nudges. U Turn also has echos of After ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Jason Overbeck
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
U.S. Distributor: TriStar Pictures Oliver Stone is perhaps best known for his numerous politically-influenced motion pictures -- everything from his Vietnam Trilogy to JFK and Nixon. Of course, Stone has also ventured into other motion picture arenas: th ...read the complete U Turn movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
The Movie: Definitely a strange film from Oliver Stone, U Turn follows Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) as his car breaks down and he ends up in the small town of Superior, AZ, where everyone seems to be stupider than dirt or more conniving than most politicians. ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
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Edinburgh U Film Society (Neil Chue Hong)
Austin Chronicle (Edward Lagrossa)
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Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
U-TURN is a long sit. Oliver Stone adapts John Ridley's neo-noir novel "Stray Dogs" by shooting in the style of NATURAL BORN KILLERS. And by showing his sense of humor, which is often funny as f**k. It works as an exaggerated cartoon, but stops cold in ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Krazy Kevin McElwee's review in "the eXile"
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
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Philadelphia City Paper (Cindy Fuchs)
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Salon.com (Michelle Goldberg)
OLIVER STONE, it seems, is tired of his reputation as a flat-footed paranoid polemicist and is ready to leap aboard the Tarantino gravy train with the Western-noir blood fest "U-Turn." There's no overt message in this fatuous montage of crowd-pleasing ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Salon.com (Michelle Goldberg)
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The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
"U-Turn" is not really worth seeing, because of its ending's flaws, and is an oddly uncharacteristic film for Oliver Stone, who describes it as a comedy-thriller. If it doesn't completely work as it stands, it doesn't even make sense as a ...read the complete U Turn movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Steve Rhodes
Although Stone may not operate on the edge in UTURN, his Academy Award winning cinematographer Robert Richardson does. Every frame is oversaturated with grainy colors, and the images frequently jump as if filmed with a strobe light. His obsession with ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Steve Rhodes
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Larry Mcgillicuddy
Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a drifter whose car breaks down in the small desert town of Superior, Arizona. He meets several offbeat characters, who thwart his attempts to escape from Superior. He catches the eye of the mysterious vixen Jennifer ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Larry Mcgillicuddy
Jan-Willem Swane
eFilmCritic
Thus it comes as a pleasant surprise to learn that with U-Turn he has abandoned much that has come to preoccupy the cloven one. In fact it is largely a black comedy staged under the blistering Arizona sun with, of course, more than its fair share of ...read the complete U Turn movie review at eFilmCritic
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
I'm beginning to think Oliver Stone took a fierce tumble down a flight of steps that affected his head in some way. Here he employs the same short-attention span style of directing he used in his previous outing, NATURAL BORN KILLERS. It was unsuccessful ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Oliver Stone confusing a "u-turn" with going endlessly round and round in circles. ...read the complete U Turn movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
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