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Summary: Stuck in Nowhere Arizona
Review: Excellent movie that keeps you interested until the end. Arizona views are authentic and you feel the heat and the dryness. There are lots of surprises for our anti-hero who did not expect that so much would be happening in a sleepy little desert town. The relationship between Nick Nolte and his wife is not new, but the plot works. You almost feel sorry for Sean Penn.
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Summary: I must have missed the point
Review: U-Turn is bloody. It's sick, too. Even hilarious in some parts. I'll tell you what it most definitely is: dead boring. The story was established early and effectively but with a limited ensemble of off-beat but uninteresting characters my interest in this picture dissipated with each passing scene. Oliver Stone's direction of this film is nothing special. I feel he was trying to capture the dark wit of the book upon which the film's based. Sean Penn gets to mouth off some great one-liners and Nick Nolte has his moments too. 'U-Turn' is too shallow for my tastes, despite the obviously camp performances and shoddy production values. Not horrible, still watchable but not one I'll be watching again in a hurry.
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Summary: Cool!
Review: This film was quite hilaious(at the end). The way things turn out for the world's most unlucky man! Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte did an excellent job. Direction was good and the filming was exceptional! I saw this film on TV and could not get up to do anything till I saw what happened in the end!
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Summary: Stone has a bad case of the wannabes
Review: Do not waste your time. So utterly disappointing and ridiculous. Not funny enough or sinister enough to be black comedy...it piles the gore so thick that it is just dumb--not campy enough to make it fun, not bloody enough to be frightening. U-turn wants so badly to be "edgy" and darkly funny, but that would require some modicum of finesse. U-turn is a rip-off of several different films, and disgraces all of them: Natural Born Killers (Stone tries to use the techniques he employed in NBK to ill effect--here it is schmaltzy), Chinatown (as if we didn't see the bare attempt at a plot twist coming), Duel in the Sun (he plagarizes the end of the movie and does such a ridiculously bad job of it that he should be ashamed). With such a great cast you'd think that this film would be great--and at some points, this potential peeks through: Voight is wonderful as the blind man, Phoenix is hilarious as TNT, Thorton RULES as the mechanic. However, as anyone who's seen Hurly Burly, or Mulholland Falls knows, an amazing cast list cannot make a bad script watchable. In fact, it just makes it worse because it's all the more frustrating and irritating. Save your time and money and get a movie that doesn't try so hard to be bad-ass, and just get one that IS--rent one of the movies U-turn tries to rip-off, or stick with your old standbys until a great movie comes along to fill that gap.
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Summary: Tantalisingly seedy
Review: This one has all the trimmings: a seedy, noirish atmosphere, pungent eroticism and a gripping plot. Oliver Stone's visual direction is nothing short of perfect. The treatment is expressionistic, dead-pan, sometimes gruesomely lyrical, e.g. a close-up shot of a cat mangled on the road, a woman's corpse with a laughing rictus, alternations from black-and-white to colour. The cast of cynical, hilariously irreverent characters -- played by Lopez, Nolte, Penn -- make this film one of the very best of its kind. Still, it's a film for the few, since some scenes are so bizarre that even hardened viewers won't be able to help being pleasantly shaken by them.
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Summary: A feast for vultures
Review: Small time hood, played with fidelity by Sean Penn, blows a hole in the water hose of his 1964 and a half red Mustang out in the desert and has to limp into Superior, Arizona, pop. about 100, temp 100-plus. He shoulda made a u-turn. He's already lost two fingers because he wasn't able to pay some dudes the $13,000 he owned them, but now he has the cash in his backpack. Next problem (number two) getting his car fixed by Darrell's other brother Darrell, an inbred hick mechanic from hell, played chillingly by Billy Bob Thornton. This guy you won't forget. Problem number three, a muy caliente Apache babe (Jennifer Lopez) who starts to play with more than his mind. Problem number four, her husband, (a lecherous and morally corrupt Nick Nolte) who wants him to kill her. Problem number four and a half is a blind Indian shaman (Jon Voight, believe it or not) who plays with his soul. All this is tolerable, but as he's getting a soda in the local groceria, it's robbed and they take his backpack with all the money in it. The senora who is robbed recovers in time to shot the robber with the backpack in the back with a shotgun. Only problem is number five, the buckshot blows Penn's money to smithereens (nice touch), and he is now flat broke and can't pay the $150 to get his Mustang back on the road. Problem number six, a small town tart (Claire Danes) cozies up to him to get her macho boy friend jealous enough to want to beat our boy to a pulp. Problem number seven, in his desperation to get enough money to blow town, our hero calls his main creditor and tells him where he is (seems dumb). His creditor wants more than the other three fingers. Problem number eight... Well, I didn't take notes, so I'm losing track. But trust me, he's got more troubles to come. This is in some ways an amazing film. It's part Clint Eastwood western, where there are no good guys, and part urban thriller, where you never know who is double crossing whom (but take a hint, they all are) or what is going to happen next. The atmosphere is compelling, all hangs together well, and we have something close to a film noire masterpiece until the scene on the cliff where our hero is supposed to push her off. Juggling the psychology in the film with the psychology he's working on the audience, Oliver Stone loses his grip and everything goes to ill-logic and blood and bodies. Hey, it's tough to concentrate through a whole stinkin' movie, even if you are Oliver Stone! Nonetheless there are so many striking images and clever scenes and so much original movie shtick here that I give you a Kmart guarantee you'll be entertained.
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Summary: Lopez Fever
Review: I have not seen this movie yet, but my sources tell me Jennifer Lopez shows Breats/Bun/and more, so I allready give it 5 stars.
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Summary: IT deserved less, but...
Review: This movie, a freak in its own, deserved less stars. Butone cannot help being sympathetic to Sean Penn's character misfortunes (and there are a lot of them) . It is him alone that make this movie a little bit interesting (BIlli THornton is good also; his acting makes us to wanna blow that mechanic apart!) Anyway, everything else is ugly and weird.
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Summary: More of the same from Oliver Stone
Review: More of the same, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Ilike this flick. It's funny, it's sexy, and it features several greatperformances. By far the best performance is given by Billy Bob Thornton. He lives his role! It's hilarious. Nick Nolte is great as a dirty old man. Sean Penn is Sean Penn. Jennifer Lopez is so sexy. The plot is a little far fetched, but you've got to love it the irony and sympathize with Penn's character. I'd rent the movie first to see if you like it because it's not for everyone.
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Summary: The Worst Movie...Ever
Review: This had to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was a hackneyed version of Natural Born Killers but set in the desert. It was basically Olvier Stone showing off how "edgy" he could be. "Look at the grainy film! How edgy! Look at my off center camera angles, and how I can't hold the camera straight! Edgy!" The performances of Claire Danes and Joaquin Phoenix were good, but they were only in it for 10 minutes. The movie dragged on for way too long. It may have been semi-tolerable if it hadn't been so long. The plot was boring, the characters uninteresting, and the direction juvenile and self-serving. I can't even think about this movie with out telling someone how bad it was. However, I think it may be the kind of movie you either love or hate. Other people I know liked it. If you are into edgy for edgy's sake, you might like this. If you think that being edgy should not be the central appeal of a movie, but rather something that may or may not go along with a good story, characters and direction, then don't watch this.
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