U-Turn . Tucson Weekly . 10-20-97

U-Turn

DIRECTED BY: Oliver Stone

REVIEWED: 10-20-97

Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Bob Thornton, Bo Hopkins and Liv Tyler just want to get out of Arizona, but get so disoriented by pointless camera tricks and meaningless close-ups that they wind up talking with Southern accents. Then there's lots of blood and shooting and double crosses and cheating and backstabbing and surprise revelations, and when there are no more film noir clichés left the movie is over. In spite of all the killings, the character of the Incompetent Director, played by Oliver Stone, remains alive at the end of the film, threatening to come back again to slash audience sensibilities with his deadly pretense and sharpened vacuity.

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