Review of U Turn (1997) by Alexander J — 29 Sep 2007
Stone goes Noir. And reverses the genre rules by a 180 degrees - the title does make sense. An absurd and grotesque tale of a lonesome, ever-so-horny renegade and a few days in a hot and dusty Arizona town callled "Superior".
No shadows here, the sun kills it all. And killing is what all the greed, psycho-shit and little-town mentality leads to. Worth seeing for a J-Lo before she became all famous, a wacky BB Thornton, a slick/dumb Joaquin Phoenix, a debile Claire Danes, an incestous Nick Nolte and a nicely disguised Jon Voight you'll hardly recognize.
Sean Penn does his best at playing a lost soul in the middle of nowhere. I wish it would've ended earlier, because all that who-is-cheating-on-whom gets pretty repetitious and the ending's sorta smack-in-the face.
Bloody, violent, cool - Oliver Stone's world-famous recipe. Some lines are hilarious... ly good. Really. He even managed to smuggle in a critique on Vietnam. What remains in the end? That odd feeling of having seen the same story before - "The Killers" (1964), anyone?
This review of U Turn (1997) was written by Alexander J on 29 Sep 2007.
U Turn has generally received positive reviews.
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