Upon his car went wrong in the way, leaving him stranded and homeless, Bobby, a young man, Fleeing from a dangerous mafia, who chases him to kill him, finds himself trapped in a small town, where people are very weird, but what challenges him is the mission he finds himself involved in that to kill a young beautiful woman
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.
Entertainment Weekly
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.
