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- 2014
- Not Rated
- Starz Digital Media
- 1 h 32 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Starz Digital Media
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Three Texas teens hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
Directed By: Zeke Hawkins
Written By: Dutch Southern
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Starz Digital Media
- 1 h 32 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Starz Digital Media
- 1 h 32 m
Bad Turn Worse
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6.9
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Summary Three Texas teens hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
Directed By: Zeke Hawkins
Written By: Dutch Southern
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
62
53% Positive
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9 Reviews
47% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The unfamiliar young cast all show a lot of potential in a well-thought-through, sting- in-the-tail plot. It’s a well-assembled genre movie rather than a great statement, but none the worse for it.
Ultimately as harrowing as any backwoods horror story but enhanced by a humanity those stories will almost never have, We Gotta Get Out Of Here is a terrific film, precisely because it takes the components of a traditional thriller, approaches them from a less-frequently explored perspective, makes them feel relatable and then elevates them with the right amount of style.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
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Any thriller from first-time directors that starts out with a couple of teenagers in a Texas diner talking about legendary pulp novelist Jim Thompson has a super-steep hill to climb. Here’s what I can say for Bad Turn Worse... It may not make it all the way up that steep slope, but the effort is pretty doggone entertaining.
This juicy tale of a reckless robbery and its spiraling bloody aftermath is enjoyably overripe pulp, steeped in grubby textures and flavorful atmosphere.
There is talent and ambition here: the film has style, mood, references – and, inevitably, a great opening and credit sequence – though it's short on substance.
Directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins add air-quote references to Jim Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers but are too proud of the movie's twists to make them truly snap. Call it "Blood Simple-ton."
With solid performances from all three leads and lovely twilight photography, the stage is set for a heartfelt coming-of-age drama – but the dire script has other ideas.