Beyond Borders (2003)
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich
Screenwriter: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Producer: Dan Halsted, Lloyd Phillips
Composer: James Horner
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...brutally haunting images ... in a setting where sappy dialogue evaporates like water.
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.
Beyond Borders trivializes the pain and suffering of actual people by reducing them to a backdrop for Hollywood twaddle.
Affecting moments appear sporadically in Beyond Borders, but they can’t amend for the movie’s lack of shame.
"Beyond Borders" is a soap opera with its heart in the right place.
While most movies insist on having 'plots,' this one boldly proceeds without one, flying in the face of convention.
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.
Beyond Borders should have been to relief efforts what Schindler’s List was to the Holocaust. Or what Saving Private Ryan was to WWII.
The idea of people from the West, previously indifferent, who immerse themselves in sickness and war in an effort to make a difference has been explored less melodramatically in an ongoing story arc on TV's E.R.
A silly movie made all the more silly by how much it wants not to be a silly movie.
It wavers like a child wanting to dive in to the deep end of a pool.
Beyond Borders can be wrenching and vigorously committed, but it’s also occasionally tasteless and calculating. Think Doctor Zhivago with landmines.
It is a rather callous, travelogue look at misery around the world.
Beyond Borders is one of those rare big-budget films that has something of vital importance to say about the real world, and pulls no punches saying it.
This pop nugget of McHistory, for all of its aspirations to sermonize, never elevates beyond a simplistic morality tale of, well, black and white.
It would all be perfectly ridiculous if it werenÕt so gosh-darn moving, in that Hollywood way that makes you hate yourself for crying, hand me another Kleenex, dammit.
It all becomes little more than feel-good-about- feeling-bad window dressing, like an issue of Utne Reader in Dolby Surround Sound.
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