crossing over movie review

Crossing Over The surprising success of Crash seems to have encouraged other filmmakers who yearn to make socially conscious ensemble movies. Crossing Over also.

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Iwas so engrossed in the movie that I never felt that it was a movie.

. The films plotlines intersect -- some naturally and some with a forced clumsiness -- and much of the movies closure feels a touch too earnest. Review this Movie. The new immigration-themed movie Crossing Over - due out in 2009 - appears to be like Crash in that its set in Los Angeles and involves the interactions of several characters.

Very though provoking movie about immigration and naturalization of people in the US. Crossing Over 2009 Directed by Wayne Kramer Synopsis Every day thousands of people illegally cross our borders only one thing stands in their way. The film deals with the border document fraud the asylum.

Ifelt as if I was part of. Like Paul Haggis Oscar winning film this one. There are no extras of any kind most.

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. Ford plays Max Brogan a grizzled officer for Immigration and Customs. Please do not use ALL CAPS.

Immigrants from around the. Rumor has it that Crossing Over endured a post-production experience so hellish that Sean Penns character was cut entirely from the film and three different versions of the film. Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.

Crossing Over sounds more promising than it turns out to be mostly because of the involvement of name actors like Ford Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta. Crash Paul Haggis 2004 Oscar-winning film about race relations in Los Angeles was so good it was bound to inspire imitators. Crossing Over Movie Review Showtimes.

Obviously the movie is not effects-heavy at all and it does not have over-the-top cinematography so it is not really something that needs to be seen in HD. Find details of Crossing Over along with its showtimes movie review trailer teaser full video songs showtimes and cast. If your review contains spoilers please check the Spoiler box.

Even though there are characters the Korean family who are glad to be nationalized the nationalization ceremony is intercut with scenes and flashbacks of violence and there is even. Over-heated melodrama follows seven or eight criss-crossing stories all dealing with immigration in the US post-911. A movie review by James Berardinelli Crossing Over is Wayne Kramers Crash -inspired look at the world of immigration in Southern California.

As Crossing Over makes its patronizing points by way of two-dimensional characters and billboarded plot points it recalls other better Read Review Review of. Its compassionate decent-minded and highly watchable but as angry heavy-handed and overemphatic as a rubber stamp crashing down on an immigration form. Ford is better than youd think as an aging.

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