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Bad Turn Worse
2014 1h 31m Not Rated
Drama
,
Thriller
,
Crime
5.5
80%
51%
54%
Play
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.
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Directed By
Simon Hawkins
,
Zeke Hawkins
Written By
Dutch Southern
Studio
Rough & Tumble Films
Cast of Bad Turn Worse
Mackenzie Davis
Sue
Logan Huffman
B.J.
Jeremy Allen White
Bobby
William Devane
Big Red
Jon Gries
Sheriff Shep
Mark Pellegrino
Giff
Erasmo Martinez
Ernesto
Bad Turn Worse Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It's a confident, engaging film, undone by some narrative sag in the middle but worth seeing for its opening and closing acts.
Entertainment Weekly
Joe McGovern
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.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Had the film not been so open about its ambition, maybe its mediocrity wouldn't seem quite so galling.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
A reminder that crime movies pointedly inspired by other, better genre films can still be enjoyable, if they wear their influences lightly and cleverly connect them to something tangibly human.
CinemaBlend
Kristy Puchko
A shambles of stereotypes and predictable plot points. ... However, there's something special and almost good in Bad Turn Worse.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"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.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.
Chicago Reader
Drew Hunt
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.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Southern does a nice job balancing out the super-obvious plot twists with the ones you don't see coming, and even when the characters more cannily constructed than realistic, the Hawkins brothers and the cast play it pretty straight.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
For all its familiarity and rote nastiness, the film's sharply crafted and quite promising.
Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Lean, mean and highly watchable -- a genre exercise that introduces a promising directing team who already show considerable command of their craft.
Paste Magazine
Travis M. Andrews
Bad Turn Worse isn't bad, it's simply generic, but it owns its genre with such swagger one can't help but look forward to seeing these actors, directors and writer in action again.
Common Sense Media
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Entertaining pulp.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
Another super-solid indie thriller along the lines of Blue Ruin & Cold in July. Highly recommended.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
Bad Turn Worse doesn't quite live up to the Jim Thompson aspirations, but fortunately it doesn't live up to its title, either.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
The Hawkins brothers make the action compelling, nicely capture small-town dead-endedness, and provide emotional voltage throughout. Peformances, too, are impressive, with Pellegrino a standout as the baddie.
The Dissolve
Matthew Dessem
Bad Turn Worse takes its best shot at the slow-motion apocalypse that was Jim Thompson's specialty, and most of the film is beautifully claustrophobic.
We Got This Covered
Matt Donato
Bad Turn Worse is an oddly blended heist-rom-dram, but a few memorable scenes will undoubtedly lead to some huge opportunities for those Hawkins boys.
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
Sparse and fraught with tension, "Bad Turn Worse" is a smart character piece with a deadly edge.
Under the Radar
Zach Hollwedel
Sibling directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins turn in a commendable effort with this indie crime thriller.
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