Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 61
This heartfelt but incompetent, cliche-ridden sports picture is the cinematic equivalent of an airball.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 22
This heartfelt but incompetent, cliche-ridden sports picture is the cinematic equivalent of an airball.
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Director Preston A. Whitmore II brings the thrill of the street to the big screen with a fast-moving tale of underground basketball that proves no matter what team you play for, in the end it's all about how much game you've got. The stroke of midnight has sounded and the crowd has gathered; it's time for some basketball. Forget about the rules of the NBA, though, and throw those college credentials out the window because they don't mean a thing in this court. In a converted rail station, the
Sep 1, 2006 Wide
Feb 20, 2007
$7.0M
Sony Pictures Entertainment
All Critics (64) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (63) | DVD (3)
A real air ball, so poorly scripted that most of the major plot developments occur offscreen.
I hated this movie. It's a piece of junk.
Much as they would like it to, basketball can't save the youthful inner-city players here. Nor does the ultra-fast-paced street version of the sport save this movie from predictability and tedium.
Just a few more tweaks and Crossover could have been something special -- a truly terrible movie to savor for the ages. But nooo, this street ball movie has to settle for middle-of-the-road badness.
Crossover has one redeeming quality: a heart that's in the right place. It's a bad movie with a good message -- but does anyone really want to pay $10 for an ABC After School Special version of He Got Game?
A lot of Crossover's manifest failings could be forgiven if the on-court action was thrilling. But Space Jam had better basketball scenes. For that matter, so did Dr. J's The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.
Even though the plot forgoes the formulaic slam-dunk, hackneyed devices, low production values, and the stilted direction (by Preston A. Whitmore II) dribble the ball off the shoe and out of bounds.
The movie is also burdened by some amateurish acting in supporting roles, but Mackie and Jonathan are the real deal, and they get good support from Wayne Brady as a smarmy sports agent.
Basketball players come of age in lame drama.
If BET made after school specials, this is what they would look like.
The streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.
Writer-director Preston Whitmore II's basketball film is a well-intentioned but utterly clichéd slice of Detroit life.
The inspirational sports movie cliches notwithstanding, Crossover is just bad filmmaking that does not serve either its cast or its audience well.
Here's a story that wanders all over the place with an ending that just about anybody could predict.
The beginning of Crossover looks like a mash-up of McG's Fastlane and Wayne Brady's storied appearance on Chappelle's Show.
The movie looks as though it was edited in a Cuisinart, more concerned with frenetic cutting than coherent storytelling.
Despite a superb cast, Crossover dribbles slowly, with not nearly enough time on the basketball court.
The budget appears to have been blown entirely on a single yellow motorcycle and team uniforms for the underground streetball games that are the film's raison d'être.
An end-of-summer throwaway that resembles last year's Supercross in its naked ineptitude and willingness to cut corners at every turn.
The Annapolis of basketball movies... The movie bounces from scene to scene like some sort of round rubbery sphere.
Dialogue needed to be BELIEVABLE to keep me interested whenever the performers talked.The only one that held my interest whenever he spoke was Wayne Brady (Vaughn) even though he was the sinister mind in this flick...Anthony Mackie (Tech) shining moments were brilliantly portrayed in this movie...and the basketball
February 26, 2007Super Reviewer
Ooooooooh boy, I bet not many of the actors in this one openly admit to being in it. Just plain badly done. Writing was awful, direction was awful, and if I want to see acting this bad again, I'll go to a high school play. The lone bright spot was Lil JJ. He was entertaining.
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