Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

SnoopyStyle ICE agents Max Brogan (Harrison Ford) and Hamid Baraheri (Cliff Curtis) are ICE catch Mireya Sanchez (Alice Braga) during a raid. High school student Taslima Jahangir from Bangladesh gets caught up after doing a presentation favorable to the 9/11 hijackers. Claire Sheperd (Alice Eve) is an aspiring actress from Australia without a green card. Her friend Gavin Kossef (Jim Sturgess) is a musician from the UK. She is coerced into sex with immigration officer Cole Frankel (Ray Liotta). He's married to immigration lawyer Denise (Ashley Judd).This is trying very hard to be Crash with illegal immigration. I would rather have concentrated on one story. The problem is that it tries too hard. It even has a couple of white illegals. Some are more compelling stories than others. Worst, it does not add up to something good. Wayne Kramer is not good enough to tackle this important issue.

Sankari_Suomi In recent months I have watched few movies which have infuriated me more than this one.Starts well but quickly descends into farce as a bunch of ethnic stereotypes lurch from one predictable crisis to another in a series of tangled story arcs.Harrison Ford (starting in a role better suited to Ben Affleck, who withdrew from the production citing 'stomach trouble') does his best with what he's given, but to no avail.I found myself despising most of the people I was supposed to empathise with because they had either gratuitously broken the law and/or were simply objectionable.Why should I feel sorry for the Bengali family who entered America illegally not because they were refugees (they weren't) but simply because they couldn't be bothered to go through the proper channels? They're just irritating ******. Sod 'em! How can I empathise with the Australian wannabe actress who cuts an illegal deal with an immigration officer, exchanging back door access for... er... back door access?This could have been an excellent drama about the complex issues facing legal and illegal immigrants, but the scriptwriters were either too scared or too lazy to do the job properly.It's an intensely frustrating movie because you can see what it could have been, but it never actually gets there.'Crossing Over' currently sits at 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, where it has been justifiably savaged as 'Tired, preachy and about as thought-provoking as a Blackpool hen party howling We Are The World on karaoke.'Give this lemon a wide berth and watch 'Crash' (2005) instead.I rate 'Crossing Over' at 13.32 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a solid 4/10 on IMDb.

Desertman84 Crossing Over is an independent film about illegal immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.It deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter-terrorism and the clash of cultures. The ensemble cast includes Harrison Ford and Ashley Judd together with Ray Liotta,Jim Sturgess,Cliff Curtis,Alice Braga and Alice Eve.It was written and directed by Wayne Kramer.Every day, a new batch of immigrants comes flooding into Los Angeles in search of the American dream and every day the price of that dream rises exponentially. As the desperation of these newcomers continually tests the humanity of Los Angeles immigration enforcement officers, the face of a 21st century L.A. gradually begins to take form.The story takes harrowing look at life among illegal immigrants and the immigration enforcement agents whose job it is to ensure that the U.S. borders remain secure. Anyone who has seen the movie,Crash will likely appreciate this film that is a multi-stranded and a heavy handed film that explores the issues surrounding immigration and US citizenship with the involvement of many characters.Unfortunately unlike the said film,Crossing Over lacks subtlety since many of the events seemed contrived and superficial.But nevertheless,we are treated with great performances particularly that of Harrison Ford.Also,it remains a thought-provoking film.

Rodrigo Amaro "Crossing Over" deals with multiple hyperlinked stories about the common goal of many different people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds trying to settle themselves in the U.S., get their Green Card and stay legal in the country. It goes to show how hard it is to achieve the American dream, to fight for it and to finally have a place in the sun, and the many obstacles and disadvantages and in the end the question that pokes us through the whole picture is if all that worth it.Assembled here are Muslims, Arabs, Mexicans, New Zealanders, Chinese all trying to improve their lives in America, battling to escape illegality but always doing that in the wrong way with illicit or unethical ways (and we can't blame only them for that since there's some Americans helping them with this). But this is also about the honest people who try their best to help those immigrants; and there's the ones whose job is to arrest the illegal ones. Those characters are played by Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Alice Braga, Ray Liotta, Cliff Curtis, Justin Chon, Alice Eve, Summer Bishil. If this was made by someone from outside like Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú or Walter Salles, or any foreign director I would probably like and respect more. They would hit with precision what it is to be seen as a menace, something different and would make a project that wouldn't be too dreamy, so exaggerated as this film tends to be at some points. The vision of an American director over the subject can only be far from reality, fantastically molded or too romantic. It's a privileged view of the oppressor over the oppressed and that's why it can't be truly presented, otherwise it would be a harsh critic of America. It gets right with two or three segments but disappoints with the others, specially the one concerning about the Iranian teenage and her inflamed speech somewhat comprehensible to the cause of the 9/11 terrorists. I don't think the movie benefited with this political discussion, it only added unnecessary wood to the bonfire. Great subject, wrong movie. Don't be discouraged with its minor problems, there's plenty of admirable things in it. If Wayne Kramer deals with the Immigration issue with a Hollywood look where good things always happen due to luck or fate its because there's audiences who love this. I would prefer a more depressive and realistic take on the subject rather than seeing Harrison Ford obsessed in trying to find a Mexican girl. But scenes like the one with Agent Hamid with the Chinese boy robbing the market, where he says about what it is to become an legal American, worth the view. Overall, "Crossing Over" is very decent, with good acting from the cast. Some segments work fine, others are overplayed but it succeeds in having thoughtful things to say about family and immigration matters. Watch it but with few expectations. 8/10