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U-Turn Meets Bound with a Cabiria Ending

[tedg · 29 September 2002]

U-Turn Meets Bound with a Cabiria Ending

Spoilers herein.

There must be an official subgenre or doomed runaway crook movies. This has nothing new, nothing that takes you to new and unfamiliar places. In fact we've been here dozens of times.

Is this the actress who did `Go Fish?' and did she work at hiding the lesbian subtext here? She's really very appealing.

What's interesting to me is that pretty much everything was done competently except the editing which was better than usual for this type of fare, and the music. The music was so dreadful it killed the whole project. I predict in a few years this will become a cult film for kids with Macs who'll add a good, really good sound track and re-edit it to suit, perhaps shuffling some time. Could turn out to be a pretty good film. Who'll be the first to try?

Ted's evaluation: 1 of 4 -- You can probably find better things to do with this part of your life.

not worth the time (possibly spoilers)

[calliste · 2/10 · 14 May 2003]

Let me just say that the soundtrack was rather cheap and the storyline wasn't at all satisfying either. The film contained clichés times three, actors that I would prefer not to see again and pretty awful and shallow acting.

I'm almost sorry, but as much as I tried to like it, I really didn't succeed and hoped all the while that it'd be over soon. But each scene was topped by one that was even more clichéd. The worst bit was one song which was a horribly obvious copy of Massive Attack's "Angel". All in all, I'd say that you can well spend those 90 minutes that it takes to get through the story with something else, such as taking a walk.