U Turn (1997)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Oliver Stone

Escritores (WGA):

John Ridley (screenplay)
John Ridley (book)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 octubre 1997 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Expect the Unexpected.

Plot:

A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town.

Plot Keywords:

Money | Desert | Femme Fatale | Small Town | Drifter

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Strange... very strange...

Reparto

Sean Penn	...	Bobby Cooper
Billy Bob Thornton	...	Darrell
Abraham Benrubi	...	Biker #1
Richard Rutowski	...	Biker #2
Jon Voight	...	Blind Man
Jennifer Lopez	...	Grace McKenna
Powers Boothe	...	Sheriff Potter
Nick Nolte	...	Jake McKenna
Aida Linares	...	Jamilla
Sean Stone	...	Boy in Grocery Store
Ilia Volok	...	Sergi (as Ilia Volokh)
Valeri Nikolayev	...	Mr. Arkady (as Valery Nikolaev)
Brent Briscoe	...	Boyd
Bo Hopkins	...	Ed
Julie Hagerty	...	Flo (as Julie Haggerty)

También conocida como:

Stray Dogs (USA) (working title)
U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (France)
Camino sin retorno (Mexico) [es]
U-Turn, giro al infierno (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language.

Duración:

125 min

País:

France | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:R21 (re-rating) | Iceland:16 | Italy:VM18 | Australia:R | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 (nf) | Hong Kong:III | Netherlands:16 (video premiere) | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R(A) | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (No. 35464)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Coachella Valley, Mecca, California, USA

Compañía:

Phoenix Pictures

Trivialidades:

Loosely inspired by a true event that took place in the early '80s where a drifter (like 'Sean Penn''s character) passed through a remote Southwestern road-stop only to never be heard from again.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: Towards the very end, the camera and crew are reflected in an extreme close-up of Grace's eyes.

Citas:

Bobby: 40,000 people die every day, Darrell. How come you're not one of 'em?

Conexiones de Película:

References Greed (1924)

Banda de Sonido:

I Wish You Love

Strange... very strange...

Well, I certainly can't say that U-TURN is a boring movie, with all those weird characters, weird situations, and (especially) the weird direction that's akin to Stone's earlier NATURAL BORN KILLERS. The atmosphere is gritty and you feel almost like you're there, and Ennio Morricone once again provides a great score. (Though parts of it sounds suspiciously like his score for INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION.)

But once you look past this, you find that you have the script for maybe half a movie. It takes forever for Penn's character to make any serious decision concerning the choices he's offered, there are plot threads that get forgotten about (such as with the gangster Penn's character owes money to), and some of the the various twists that happen towards the end have really no consequence - only there to pad time. This probably explains why Stone went berzerk on the direction, to try and hide the thinness of the script. RED ROCK WEST wasn't as flashy, but it had a more complex (and longer) story that by itself kept you interested to the end.