DVD Crossing Over
Added 11/12/2009
Harrison Ford in another excellent role, showing his versatility as an all around actor of the highest caliber.
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Over Dramatizing
Added 10/14/2009
I suppose some people love a drama, for them this is a 10 star movie. But to me when I buy a movie by Harrison Ford I expect top notch acting and a script that Hollywood money can afford and the right knowledge of how to make it all happen. The end result is supposed to leave me feeling highly entertained and look forward to watching it again some day, because after all thats why I bought it, not rented or borrowed it from a local library. In the case of this movie I wish I had gotten it for free from the Library instead of wasting my money on it. Its all drama, all tear jerking drama. I wanted to be entertained, not dramatized! After viewing it I put it in the "to sell" pile, not on the shelf. Like I said, if its a drama you want, then buy it, but if you want more than to cry constantly for the constant onslaught of crap that happens to nice people, then go ahead and buy it. personally I prefer an uplifting movie or pure entertainment, whether action, sci-fi, true story, ect. anything but non stop tear jerking gut wrenching drama. I might as well watch a video of the day we buried my beloved Mother! Meaning simply: you dont need a movie to remind you of some things, you just don't!!! so I give 2 stars, only reason I dont give it just one star is because Harrison Ford does act well, but there's just no story, its all just a bunch of situations designed to give you grief! All clumped together to pretend its a movie, which it isnt. You need a great story to make a great movie, not just dramatic situations one after the next! Sheesh!! They should have thrown the whole thing out, sorry, but I really do feel that way, and I know a good movie when I see it! I've tried to be as accurate, honest and fair as I could be on this review. If you really do like this kind of movie, please buy my copy, its for sale.
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Involving, Bittersweet Stories of Illegal Immigrants...
Added 10/6/2009
Let me say, from the beginning, that I admire Wayne Kramer's remarkable "Crossing Over", as a sincere attempt to humanize the real problem of illegal immigration in the United States, and to remind us that many nationalities are a part of the situation, with some immigrants, in our country nearly all their lives, fulfilling all of the obligations of American citizens, except for actually being citizens. For those who see every person illegally here as either enjoying a 'free ride' on law-abiding citizens, or plotting acts of terrorism, I hope this film will open their eyes to the bigger picture.
Saying this, I have to admit that the film isn't entirely successful; in telling so many stories, Kramer is forced to nearly stereotype some characters, and tie up too neatly some of the subplots. While this doesn't hurt the more important plot elements, it does lessen the film's credibility, somewhat. And in only portraying sympathetic immigrants, it does paint an occasionally unflattering picture of the our immigration services, which isn't entirely fair; this is a problem of epic proportions, and the agents trying to enforce the law are not villains with personal agendas, they are simply doing the job they were hired to do.
The multiple storylines involve a veteran agent (Harrison Ford, who was never better), searching to find a young mother he helped deport, to reunite her with her son; a young British atheist (Jim Sturgess), forced to return to his Jewish roots to stay in country on religious grounds; an outspoken Islamic girl (Summer Bishil), threatening her whole family's future by simply saying in a classroom that the 9/11 terrorists had a reason for resorting to violence; a Korean boy (Justin Chon) endangering his family, by gang pressure to join in an armed robbery; an Islamic family, whose son (Cliff Curtis) is Ford's partner, overreacting to their daughter's relationship with a married non-believer; a successful lawyer (Ashley Judd) hoping to adopt an orphaned African child; and her Immigration Department husband (Ray Liotta, in one of his less-likable roles), 'buying' an young Australian actress (Alice Eve) and her favors, in exchange for a new green card. While the stories have interconnecting characters, they are not locked as firmly together as "Crash", and other recent multi-story films, and the Judd subplot gets a bit shortchanged, while the Liotta one occasionally seems little more than an excuse to repeatedly show Eve's exquisite nude body. There are, however, powerful moments in the other storylines, that help offset this.
"Crossing Over" is not perfect, but it is an important film...and should be seen, more than once.
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a sad movie about California, the land of the illegal alien
Added 10/4/2009
What I like about this movie is that it points out that not just latins/ Mexicans
are coming across the southern International border. An Islamic girl
writes a report about suicide bombers and is deported when it is found that both she
and her parents are illegal.
A beautiful Australian girl makes a deal with a government official
of a sexual favors sort to get a green card. A singer -song writer
finds his Jewish roots in order to stay in the country.
Life and death on the streets of LA where groups from everywhere in the world
have joined in a gold rush to come to the promised land of the USA!
There is a perversion of the land of the free here...
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Great Movie
Added 8/17/2009
This movie is really great. Everyone will enjoy it. It is really awesome.
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Disappointment
Added 11/11/2009
Disappointment is an understatement. You would think that a movie with this cast of talent would be great. Nope, the only great thing about this movie... is Jessica Biel and her nude body scene.
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Jessica Biel Naked
Added 11/3/2009
I like watching Jessica Biel naked. But Jessica it's Go Go not... cry cry. Forrest Whitaker irritated the excrement out of me. Jessica Biel is not a good actress but the story with her and Ray Liotta was semi interesting. But still this movie blows... except for Jessica Biel stripping and being naked, something that most hollywood actress's who play strippers can't seem to figure out (strippers take their clothes off).
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it took a heroic effort to finish it...
Added 10/24/2009
yeah, so...i did want to see how it turned out but the ending was mostly so @#@# cliche... it's not the increduality of the stripper hooking up with the nerd mortician but just everything else so predictable. there was some potential. but it didn't pan out...about 1/2 way through the film i was tracking how much time was left and using my utmost personal control to not Fast Forward to the end.
that movie plot technic, very-loosely-interrelated collage of stories that make up a single film...it's worn thin already. eg, forest whitaker never meets jessica biel in the film but they both related to the mortician at different times--but did the mortician (being the only mortician in the film) get the boys body? the tranny's body?
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