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(1987)

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A bizarre mish-mash
Serpent-525 August 2000
This film must have had many involved in the making of the film who had different visions of what this film should have been. The american theatrical 1-sheet hints it is a supernatural thriller (which it is not), the British video box suggest it is a possession thriller (which it is not), the movie plays like a afterschool special or one of them family movies with messages, yet it contains (though brief) language and nudity, so it isn't for kids (but really didn't deserve an R rating).

The basic premise had these motorcycle riding gangs crash a magicians grandson's (McKeon) party, and terrorize everyone (no death or excessive physical violence)until the adults chase them away, so in the end, the master magcian (Eddie Albert) and McKeon and his friends get even with them by making them go through their haunted house of magic! It seriously plays like a "message" teen film for TV!

This is a odd film as it stars American and England actors, yet looks like it was shot in Netherlands. Film was announced on video in US back in 1987, after its brief theatrical run, but instead came straight to HBO. Never was released on video here. Real catchy title tune by Paul Carrack however. And great to see Jonna Lee, whom we don't see enough of anymore.
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1/10
Turnaround and walk, no, RUN away!
Vomitron_G28 February 2006
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I don't believe this!!! This movie is boring, dull, lame, stupid, uninteresting and way too politically correct. It's not even so bad it's funny. The son of a family of illusionists throws a party. A group of motorcycle-scum with a bad 80's wardrobe crashes the party. The family decides to teach them a (magical) lesson.

We have completely lame third-rate cheap tricks (like flowers being pulled out of whatever, cards appearing by sleight of hand) performed by the family whenever they get the chance. The leader of the pack is not convincing and he looks gay (like in homo-sexual). When they crash the party, the only thing they do is throw some food and try to set fire to the sofa (they fail in doing so). Absolutely nobody gets killed or even hurt and when grandpa shows up he counts to 5 and the bad guys willingly LEAVE THE HOUSE(!), just like that. At the end when the bad boys are trapped in a house and the family unleashes its 'devilish' tricks, one mean tough-looking dude is actually scared of a FLOATING MASK(?!?!) (I admit, that was kinda funny and I expected the dude to cry out for his mommy). Oh, yeah, this movie has probably the dumbest 80's pop-song ever on its soundtrack. And you get to hear it twice. Over the opening- and end-credits.

Boy, oh boy, this movie was unbelievable. I bet Movie Nuttball is gonna give this tripe 10 out of 10 stars. If you come across this movie: turnaround and walk away. If you wanna see a movie about crazy people on motorcycles, watch MAD MAX. If you wanna watch a suspenseful movie about real magic, watch Clive Barker's LORD OF ILLUSIONS. If you wanna see a drama-movie, watch any Meryl Streep-movie. If you wanna scream in terror, watch BAMBI. But whatever you do, don't watch TURNAROUND. There's no action, no mystery, no thrills, no comedy and no drama. But it IS a movie for the whole family. That is if your family consists of retards.
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1/10
Gives the word "turkey" a whole new meaning
Perald2 May 2015
A Norwegian director who had success with a feature was given all to much money to make a new film. He hires a cast of American actors including Jonna Lee and Ramon Estevez, shoots some scenes in NY,and the rest in the small town of Drammen, Norway. He uses the help of the local American Car Club to add some clunkers to the street scape, as well as using a typical US telephone boot which he moves around, adding an American mailbox, and some police stickers to one of the clunkers.

It ends up looking like..... Drammen, Norway.

The story is hopeless, suitable for 10 year olds....

The soundtrack starts of promising, but throughout the film it is succeeded by muzak.
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