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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...
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.
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.
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.
It's a feast for the senses, as long as you have a strong stomach.
August 04, 2009
Entertainment Weekly
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.