6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
U Turn (1997)
U Turn (1997)
Overview
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
6.2
Overview
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around individual survival, greed, and betrayal within a neo-noir framework, which lacks a strong inherent political valence. It offers no clear ideological solution to the human depravity it portrays, resulting in a neutral political bias.
The film includes some visible diversity within its cast, though it does not feature explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative primarily focuses on a cynical crime thriller plot, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on DEI themes.
Secondary
The film portrays characters in a nominally Christian setting as deeply corrupt, violent, and hypocritical. Religious references and symbols are often used ironically to underscore the moral decay and absence of genuine faith among the town's inhabitants, without offering a counterbalancing positive portrayal.
The film "U Turn" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a drifter's perilous encounters in a desolate town, with no elements related to queer identity or experiences present in the story.
U Turn (1997) does not include any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its plot. The film's narrative is centered on a neo-noir thriller without engaging with transgender identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
U Turn (1997) is an original film, not an adaptation of pre-existing material, a biopic, or a reboot of established characters. All characters were created for this specific story, thus there is no prior canonical gender to swap from.
The film "U Turn" is an adaptation of John Ridley's novel "Stray Dogs." Analysis of the main characters and their portrayals in the film against their descriptions in the source material reveals no instances where a character canonically or explicitly established as one race was depicted as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
6.6
Critic Ratings
5.9
5.4
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