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.
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Crossover (2006)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:1
Rotten:60
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: This heartfelt but incompetent, cliche-ridden sports picture is the cinematic equivalent of an airball.
Theatrical Release:Sep 1, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $7,009,668
Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Preston A. Whitmore II (THE WALKING DEAD) tells the tale of two old friends whose lives seem very different. Tech's (Anthony Mackie) dream is to play basketball, but he... [More]
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Allen Payne, Lil JJ
Director: Preston A. Whitmore
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Reviews for Crossover
The streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.
09/23/06
Crossover is a movie that fouls out in the first half.
08/31/06
Top CriticCrossover could've used a little more sports action in place of some overwrought melodrama.
09/01/06
Compared to those prodigious in-your-face fakes, alley oops and slam dunks, the movie's trite, trash-talking dialogue and drippy do-the-right-thing message fall as flat as an airball.
08/31/06
Top CriticIf BET made after school specials, this is what they would look like.
09/29/06
You could watch Crossover, or you could check out the Salvation Army gift shop to see what inspirational bumper stickers they're peddling.
08/31/06
A couple of dramatic plot points come and go with the speed of a buzzer-beating shot. And like the style of play the film glorifies, it’s all flash and no fundamentals.
08/30/06
Top CriticMuch 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.
09/01/06
The beginning of Crossover looks like a mash-up of McG's Fastlane and Wayne Brady's storied appearance on Chappelle's Show.
09/07/06
If you're old enough to see how shamelessly manipulative and predictable it is, you're too old for it.
09/01/06
Crossover is not just awful, it's gloriously, stupendously, magnificently awful. And best of all, it has Wayne Brady as the bad guy.
08/31/06
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.
09/01/06
Top CriticJust 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.
09/01/06
Top CriticThe chances of it actually 'crossing over' are nil.
08/29/06
The entire film is just so over-the-top, feeling more like an After School Special than a serious inner-city drama.
09/01/06
This is a neo-minstral show.
09/01/06
While director-screenwriter Preston A. Whitmore II's film is to be admired for its proponing the values of a higher education over the dream of a career in the NBA, its dialogue, characterizations and situations rarely transcend the level of cliche.
08/31/06
Melodramatically absurd and technically inept...well-intentioned but dull.
08/31/06
The Annapolis of basketball movies... The movie bounces from scene to scene like some sort of round rubbery sphere.
09/01/06
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