Possibly the best moment - and this is in the trailer, so it's not revealing anything too big - is when Bobby, played perfectly in the scene by Sean Penn, turns to Darrell - played with gruesome perversity by Billy Bob Thornton - and with uncharacteristic wit says, "Forty thousand people die each day, how come you're not one of them?" Now that's an insult! Penn delivers the line well, to the right character at the right moment. The problem is, almost none of them all come together at the same time. It has characters that are, at the very least, intriguing. It has a respected director (Oliver Stone), it has a decent cast that includes Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez (remember when she was primarily an actress?), and Billy Bob Thornton. U Turn has a number of elements that seem to set it up for greatness. As Bobby is tossed between Darrell and a psychopath named TNT, attracted to Grace and avoiding the law in the form of Sheriff Potter, he finds himself desperate to get out of Superior and in need of money he does not have. Unfortunately for Bobby, he's at the site of a stick-up and the money he's carrying to pay off his debts gets shot up by a store owner who kills the robbers. Bobby is attacked by her husband, Jake, who then approaches Bobby with a proposition he'll give him money to kill Grace, a proposition Bobby rejects. Grace is nice enough, recognizes his flirting and brings him back to her house. While Darrell is repairing Bobby's car, he goes into the town where he encounters Grace. In the desert, he finds the small town of Superior and a crazy hick mechanic named Darrell.
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As the movie stretched on and on, the anticipation faded and the reality sunk in there's a reason U Turn is almost never mentioned with Stone's classic works JFK and Natural Born Killers.īobby Cooper is driving through Arizona en route to paying off a gambling debt that has already cost him two fingers when the radiator tube in his car's engine ruptures and he is forced to get it repaired. If anything, I was biased toward it from the previews I barely remembered. Ever since then, it has been on my list to see and I was thrilled to find it on DVD (albeit a no-frills version) and I was excited to sit down and watch this movie. When I was in college, possibly when I saw The Usual Suspects ( reviewed here!) in the theater, I saw a preview for Oliver Stone's U Turn.
The Basics: With violent, mean and unredeemably bad characters, U Turn tells a story of a man trapped in a backwater town that Oliver Stone sloppily creates. The Bad: Stone's directoral toying, Terrible characters, Feels long
The Good: Some decent acting, Moments of character/intrigue
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