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Critics 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.
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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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.
It's all too conventional, a prosaic melodrama composed of characters who turn out to be strictly good or evil. We already know that immigrants are exploited. Crossing Over tries to tell us that once again, while compounding the offence.
While Mr. Kramer does seem to believe in the decency of his characters, their individual stories eventually become so far-fetched that, in the end, they are virtually indistinguishable from Hollywood baloney.
Multicultural hot pot boils over into farce.
The film manages to sustain a general air of dull preachiness without ever having much to say for itself.
It's compassionate, decent-minded and highly watchable, but as angry, heavy-handed and overemphatic as a rubber stamp crashing down on an immigration form.
Being over-stuffed and heavy-handed are not even Crossing Over's biggest problems. That dubious honour goes to an absolute failure to address its nominal subject-matter in any meaningful way.
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.
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
I wasn't expecting another Crash from Crossing Over, and I didn't get another Crash. Crossing Over follows a number of people and their troubles with immigration issues. Harrison Fird headlines, with Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd among the supporting cast. Ford is an ICE officer named Brogan, whose partner (Cliff Curtis), an Arabic guy whose sister (Alice Braga) works at a printing shop that makes fake Green Cards, ID's, and the like. Claire (Alice Eve) is discovered having a couple of these things by Ray Liotta's character, who cons her into having an affair with him. Ashley Judd plays Liotta's wife, who is trying her best to solve an issue involing a Muslim girl supposedly sympathizing with those who caused 9/11. Meanwhile, Jim Sturgess successfully does nothing as a Jewish atheist. Confused? Don't be. The story is fairly simple to follow. The only fault I have is with Jim Sturgess, who is for the most part unconnected with any of the other characters. The acting is very good, Harrison Ford reminded me of John Hartigan (of Sin City). Cliff Curtis gave a great performance too, I don't understand why he isn't on the A-List yet. Ray Liotta gives a scummy performance, as a total creep. Ashley Judd is good too. If you're looking for the successor to Crash, Crossing Over isn't it. But if you're up for a pretty good film that discusses an issue that never tires, I'd recommend this.
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