Crossover Reviews
Sacramento News & Review
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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| Original Score: 3/5
Boston Phoenix
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Top CriticA real air ball, so poorly scripted that most of the major plot developments occur offscreen.
TheMovieChicks.com
If BET made after school specials, this is what they would look like.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Premiere Magazine
The streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Bullz-Eye.com
There are dumb movies and then there is Crossover, a movie so devoid of logic it will leave you astounded.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Austin Chronicle
Writer-director Preston Whitmore II's basketball film is a well-intentioned but utterly clichéd slice of Detroit life.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Boxoffice Magazine
The inspirational sports movie cliches notwithstanding, Crossover is just bad filmmaking that does not serve either its cast or its audience well.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Here's a story that wanders all over the place with an ending that just about anybody could predict.
Full Review | Original Score: .5/4
PopMatters
The beginning of Crossover looks like a mash-up of McG's Fastlane and Wayne Brady's storied appearance on Chappelle's Show.
I hated this movie. It's a piece of junk.
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
The movie looks as though it was edited in a Cuisinart, more concerned with frenetic cutting than coherent storytelling.
Hollywood.com
Despite a superb cast, Crossover dribbles slowly, with not nearly enough time on the basketball court.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Baltimore Sun
Crossover's got game, not to mention the best of intentions. But it's too clunky by half.
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| Original Score: C
E! Online
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.
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| Original Score: D
AV Club
An end-of-summer throwaway that resembles last year's Supercross in its naked ineptitude and willingness to cut corners at every turn.
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| Original Score: D
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Can Magazine
The Annapolis of basketball movies... The movie bounces from scene to scene like some sort of round rubbery sphere.
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.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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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| Original Score: 1.5/4
