Crossing Over (2009)
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Critic Consensus: Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability.
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as Max Brogan
as Denise Frankel
as Cole Frankel
as Chris Farrell
as Taslima Jahang
as Farid Baraheri
as Hamid Baraheri
as Claire Shepard
as Yong Kim
as Ray
as Zahra Baraheri
as Gavin Kossef
as Mireya Sanchez
as Marla
as Special Agent Phadkar
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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (90)
Any one of these stories, if properly fleshed out and shorn of contrivance, would have made for a perfectly serviceable film. Instead, we have lots of hysterical little bits of nothing much.
There are good performances here, but the sheer number dilutes their power, leaving the movie a bit of a mess.
You see, it's all a bit too interlocking, a cable series jammed into a couple of hours.
[Crossing Over] has a paint-by-numbers quality.
Part of the reason why Crossing Over doesn't work is that too many of the hurdles [director] Kramer places in front of his protagonists often feel like the product of a writer's imagination instead of real-life experiences.
The film is so choppy, especially in the final going, it appears that entire reels have been cut.
Audience Reviews for Crossing Over
A really good movie with Harrison Ford. It's been a long time since I could utter those words.
Super Reviewer
Harrison Ford the whip cracking hero of old can hardly pick a good film to save himself these days but Crossing Over is decent effort. He plays an immigration officer controlling the border of Mexico but his job is only a small part of the bigger picture of immigrants entering America. The film is similiar to "Crash" and "Traffic" in that, there are many characters who intertwine in each others lives and the impact the decisions they make have on others. It's not as good as the previous films mentioned but a decent effort and some good performances by Ford and a real sleazy Ray Liotta.
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Harrison Ford plays an immigration officer and movie shows different cases that are handled everyday. Was I touched, not in the slightest. Becoming a legal citizen of any country requires more then just hitting US Soil, and the Bill of Rights and US Constitution touch on immigration in no way. Overall movie worth 3 stars but will add another 1/2
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