Voight has a high time under the makeup guise of the half-Apache panhandler, the only resident with a lick of sense, even though he’s S.O.L. Fresh off his breakthrough in Sling Blade, Thornton’s malevolent grease monkey, complete with doof glasses, a beer gut and teeth that would repel a bush hog, and Phoenix, doing Tiny-Elvis-Gone-Pyscho as the town’s leading permanent punk, make their scenes crackle. Ennio Morricone’s obtrusive score goes for ‘wacky’, early on, and won’t shut up.Īnd yet-most of the acting hits the bullseye. Other than as an exercise in style, and dip into technique-flaunting nihilism, there’s not much point to it all, and the violence piles on. There are a number of darkly funny bits, but you have to endure a lot of in-your-face sleaze. Bobby’s dilemma would arouse more sympathy if played by Bill Paxton, who backed out of the project Penn’s jerk-as-hero is just not likable enough, in a scenario where everyone else is sick or suspect. The profanity-laden script doesn’t break any new ground (other than the queasy incest angle), and owes a good deal of framing to older noir items like Red Rock West, except that there is no-one to root for here. Only Jake’s sultry-as-the-Rio Puta wife ‘Grace’ (Jennifer Lopez) offers a way out-and plenty more-that isn’t disgusting, and she comes with a cost. A blind vagrant (an unrecognizable Jon Voight) spouts warnings. Tucker’ (Joaquin Phoenix) wants to pound Bobby because he’s convinced Bobby’s coming on to his bird-brained girlfriend ‘Jenny’ (Claire Danes). The sheriff (Powers Boothe) has a drinking problem, local punk ‘Toby N. Skeezy mechanic ‘Darrell’ (Billy Bob Thornton) holds the car hostage, a botched robbery leaves Bobby’s money stash in literal tatters, and crazy-acting realtor ‘Jake McKenna’ (Nick Nolte) wants the stranded stranger to murder his wife for him. ‘Bobby’ (Penn), on the skip from a cash-debt to Russian hoods (who’ve already snipped off a couple of his fingers), sees his luck go from worse to hellish when his Mustang breaks down in an Arizona desert backwater burg with a decidedly unsavory populace. Hang tough, snicker and flinch, as excess is the order of the day. He’s the lobster in the pot.” Scripted by John Ridley, from his novel “Stray Dogs”, Stone’s bummer road trip/bad acid trip/morals & taste broiler boasts a heavyweight cast working their rears off in some striking cinematography from Robert Richardson. U-TURN director Oliver Stone, on his 1997 black comedy/crime noir : “I love the outrageous humor of it…It’s about small-town America, perversion, corruption, incest - all those good things - and Sean Penn wanders right into it.
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