U Turn
Bobby, a young punk drifter heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him, is forced to stop due to a car breakdown in a Arizona town where the people are stranger than anyone he';s encountered. Bobby doesn';t have the money to get his car back, so when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. But later, the wife also hires Bobby to kill the husband...
23 August 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
16 June 1955, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
15 June 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
12 April 1979, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
28 October 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
8 February 1941, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
4 October 1969, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
March 08, 2004
A bad trip flick.
February 21, 2001
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.
September 07, 2011
As the first Oliver Stone movie to gleefully dispense with sociopolitical significance, U-Turn is an overdue event, a chance for Stone to apply his hypnotic acid-trip-of-the-soul wizardry to something sexy and lowdown.
August 04, 2009
It's a feast for the senses, as long as you have a strong stomach.
February 09, 2006
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.
July 25, 2007
This long, strange trip is fun but aimless.
January 01, 2000
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.
February 11, 2007
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.'
April 25, 2003
It's a disappointing ride.
April 09, 2005
One of Stone's best narrative, and thought-provoking, efforts to date.
April 08, 2015
With the exception of 1988's lacerating Talk Radio, U Turn might be the most forgotten film in Oliver Stone's canon -- a shame, since it offers sinful pleasures for those willing to take the ride.
March 26, 2009
The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.
