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Beyond Borders (2003)

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14

Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 88

Beyond Borders is good-intentioned, but the use of human suffering as a backdrop for a romance comes across as sanctimonious and exploitative.

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 32

Beyond Borders is good-intentioned, but the use of human suffering as a backdrop for a romance comes across as sanctimonious and exploitative.

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Martin Campbell directs the romantic adventure Beyond Borders. Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, a American living with her wealthy British husband, Henry Bauford (Linus Roache), in London during the early '80s. At a charity benefit, she meets passionate relief worker Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), who chastises the rich people for not helping out the needy in war-torn countries. Sarah is quickly compelled to join his humanitarian cause to fight the famine in Ethopia. She then follows him to

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Caspian Tredwell-Owen

Mar 23, 2004

$4.4M

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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (90) | DVD (20)

It all becomes little more than feel-good-about- feeling-bad window dressing, like an issue of Utne Reader in Dolby Surround Sound.

October 28, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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... an old-fashioned romance.

October 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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An unconvincing melodrama that seems more interested in pushing an agenda and preaching than in developing legitimate, compelling characters.

October 26, 2003 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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A melodrama with pretensions to humanitarian generosity.

October 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com
Salon.com
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Well-intentioned but astonishingly flat.

October 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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The premise of the movie deserves better.

October 24, 2003
Washington Post
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Important issues buried in soap opera silliness.

October 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

...brutally haunting images ... in a setting where sappy dialogue evaporates like water.

September 20, 2004
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

The truth is shifty throughout Beyond Borders, primarily because its fiction is filtered through Sarah's eyes.

March 26, 2004 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Se abordar os esforços humanitários ao redor do planeta é admirável, colocá-los em segundo plano para priorizar uma história de amor é mais do que frustrante; é imperdoável.

March 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Cinema em Cena

There's a decent handful of extras here, starting with a full-length audio commentary by director Martin Campbell and producer Lloyd Philips.

March 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Beyond Borders trivializes the pain and suffering of actual people by reducing them to a backdrop for Hollywood twaddle.

January 1, 2004 Full Review

Affecting moments appear sporadically in Beyond Borders, but they can't amend for the movie's lack of shame.

November 22, 2003 Full Review

"Beyond Borders" is a soap opera with its heart in the right place.

November 17, 2003 Full Review
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

While most movies insist on having 'plots,' this one boldly proceeds without one, flying in the face of convention.

November 4, 2003 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

Those expecting Jolie's character to end up feeding and clothing every indigent person on the planet might be surprised at the movie's toughness and refusal to compromise.

November 4, 2003
Creative Loafing

Beyond Borders should have been to relief efforts what Schindler's List was to the Holocaust. Or what Saving Private Ryan was to WWII.

November 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat
Aisle Seat

A silly movie made all the more silly by how much it wants not to be a silly movie.

October 30, 2003 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Beyond Borders

This movie goes where others are afraid to go Show the lives of children in Africa. Clive Owen plays a take no Bull Shi^ from anybody and in the process falls in love with Miss Rich Girl who is married but still Sleeps with the Doctor anyway. Oh thats right its 2010, have so morals. Still all in all a 5 star movie
October 21, 2010
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It is so incredibly shameful how the well-intentioned and promising first half about the misery in Africa gives place to a ridiculous and exploitative romance in the final act.
January 5, 2010
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