When I stumbled upon this 2020 Filipino horror movie on Netflix, I had never heard about it, and given my fascination with both horror movies and Asian cinema, then of course I opted to give director Roderick Cabrido's movie a fair chance.
While I did manage to sit through the 98 minutes that the movie ran for, I have to say that I was only mildly entertained by the narrative. Writer Cenon Palomares didn't exactly deliver a particularly riveting narrative or script for director Roderick Cabrido to bring to the screen. It was, in fact, a rather boring story that actually made very little sense.
And even the character gallery in the movie was somewhat boring as well, and that didn't exactly help to lift up an otherwise stale and bland storyline and script.
The acting performances in the movie were fair enough. I wasn't familiar with the cast, aside from Martin Del Rosario.
For a scary movie then "U-Turn" wasn't particuarly effective, as there was nothing scary in it. That, or perhaps I am just jaded from about 40 years of watching horror movies.
I have to say that there simply is zero replay value to "U-Turn", provided you get through it the first time around, that is.
My rating of "U-Turn" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.
