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U-Turn

1997

Oliver Stone

Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton ...

6.5

13,940

Thriller Bobby Cooper (Penn) is a gambler on the run who has the misfortune to have his radiator hose blow in a godforsaken Arizona hole-in-the-wall. He quickly meets the stunning Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez), and they go to her place to become better acquainted. When her husband, real estate king Jake (Nick Nolte), catches the two together in the bedroom, they fight, but at a later meeting, he proposes that Bobby kill his wife for a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Savvy audiences should embrace this as something sufficiently different from the standard bloodlust melodrama"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[It] starts out as a rude, seductive head bender, but Stone finally inflates it into a blood opera of sadomasochistic love"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'U-Turn' becomes a showcase for the filmmaker's terrific arsenal of visual mannerisms and free-association imagery"	POS
United Kingdom	Bob McCabe Empire	"It's not the best film he's ever made, but certainly the best for a long while (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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