U Turn (1997)

All Critics (49) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (20) | DVD (8)

The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.

March 26, 2009 Full Review

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

Penn turns in a crisp, unfussy comic performance, Lopez vamps like a scorpion in heat, Nolte sustains a pretty good John Huston impression, and Thornton is mighty peculiar as the mechanic from hell.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

It's a disappointing ride.

April 25, 2003 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

It's so empty emotionally it's difficult to see what the point is, unless it's the celebration of emptiness, an aim that has become so familiar recently it hardly seems worth the trouble everyone has gone to.

February 21, 2001 Full Review

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

U-Turn becomes a showcase for the filmmaker's terrific arsenal of visual mannerisms and free-association imagery.

January 1, 2000 Full Review

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

Stone has stretched this rubber band past the point where it should snap into parody, but it still holds the shape of a rubber band.

January 1, 2000

Jeff Millar

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

It's a feast for the senses, as long as you have a strong stomach.

August 4, 2009 Full Review

Blake French

Filmcritic.com

This long, strange trip is fun but aimless.

July 25, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Viewers who don't need depth and can ignore technique overkill along with social critique nonsense, should enjoy the bumpy ride offered by 'U Turn.'

February 11, 2007 Full Review

Donald J. Levit

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

One of Stone's best narrative, and thought-provoking, efforts to date.

April 9, 2005 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

A bad trip flick.

March 8, 2004 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Much longer and tiresome to the audience than it should have been.

February 10, 2004 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Perplexing in the extreme.

October 15, 2002 Full Review

Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

With brilliant photography and inventive camerawork, Stone gives a really interesting feel to the story.

September 10, 2002 Full Review

Kevin N. Laforest

Montreal Film Journal

U-Turn is fast-paced throughout, with unexpected bursts of twisted humor among the bloody closeups of beatings, shootings and mutilation.

June 5, 2002 Full Review

Ed Scheid

Boxoffice Magazine

Observar os 'truques' de Oliver Stone é, por si só, diversão mais do que suficiente.

May 31, 2002 Full Review

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

U-Turn is just your basic film noir, only with all the walloping, bravura technique that Stone brings to the similarly far-fetched premises of his overtly political films.

March 24, 2002 Full Review

Gary Susman

Boston Phoenix

a mostly wasted effort in exploiting a well-tread genre

February 27, 2001 Full Review

James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

• 1. Blind Man: A man with no ethics is a free man.
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• 1. Blind Man: Everything is everything. And everything is nothing, too.
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• 1. Toby N. Tucker: I don't think you know who I am. The name's Toby N. Tucker. People round here call me TNT. You know why?
  2. Bobby Cooper: Because they're not very imaginative?
  3. Toby N. Tucker: 'Cause I'm just like dynamite, boy, and when I go off, somebody gets hurt.
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• 1. Sheriff Potter: She liked fuckin' her papa.
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• 1. Bobby Cooper: Listen to me you stupid fuck...
  2. Darrell: No! You listen to me goddamnit! Ya sorry son of a bitch! You owe me money! And this car aint goin' no place 'till I get it!
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• 1. Grace McKenna: Don't you want to know? Was Jake my father? Was I fucking my daddy? Yes, I was! I was fucking my daddy! And I married him! I married him, okay? I just wanted to be a kid. And they took that from me. They treated me like meat. A piece of meat. Fuck him! Fuck the whole town, they deserve to die!
  – Submitted by Victoria A (4 months ago)

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