Crossover (2006)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 63
This heartfelt but incompetent, cliche-ridden sports picture is the cinematic equivalent of an airball.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 24
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
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Anthony Mackie
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Wesley Jonathan
Noah Cruise -
Wayne Brady
Vaughn -
Kristen Wilson
Nikki -
Lil JJ
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Phillip "Hot Sauce" ...
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Eva Pigford
Vanessa -
Alecia Fears
Eboni -
Neil Richardson
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All Critics (64) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (63) | DVD (3)
A real air ball, so poorly scripted that most of the major plot developments occur offscreen.
Top CriticI 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.
You can't blame Crossover for being comfortable with its own clichés. It's so blatantly formulaic that it actually grows on you if you don't dismiss it in the first five minutes.
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?
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.
If BET made after school specials, this is what they would look like.
Writer-director Preston Whitmore II's basketball film is a well-intentioned but utterly clichéd slice of Detroit life.
There are dumb movies and then there is Crossover, a movie so devoid of logic it will leave you astounded.
The streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.
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.
Crossover's got game, not to mention the best of intentions. But it's too clunky by half.
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.
Detroit-born independent filmmaker Preston A. Whitmore II's astonishingly inept drama revolves around the high-stakes world of streetball and the efforts of two teenagers to resist its flash and cash temptations.
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