Bad Turn Worse
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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2014
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Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They 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.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
91 min
Release date:
15 Aug 2014
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Bad Turn Worse is a taut noir tale, bolstered by a trio of excellent lead performances and a well-plotted script.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
4 Dec 2014
rotten:
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.
– Joe McGovern,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Nov 2014
rotten:
"Bad Turn Worse" simply peters out by the night of the big heist, never achieving more than being imitative of small-town noir instead of getting inside it.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Nov 2014
fresh:
A juicy neo-noir like "Bad Turn Worse" doesn't have to make total sense to grab you. All it has to do is spit like a snake enough times to show that it means business.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
13 Nov 2014
fresh:
This cowboy noir works fine as a genre riff, but screenwriter Dutch Southern draws so liberally on the work of Jim Thompson, Cormac McCarthy, and the Coen brothers that he ought to take them all out for drinks.
– Drew Hunt,
Chicago Reader,
13 Nov 2014