Writer-director Wayne Kramer's immigration issue film stars Harrison Ford
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
Crossing Over" will make you weep, but not for the reasons its makers intended. Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
Written, directed and co-produced by Wayne Kramer, "Crossing Over" has designs on dealing seriously with the problems of immigration, on showing how the desperation to get legal in this country leads to a damaged system that corrupts almost everything it touches.
But instead of anything commendable, "Crossing Over" stands in a long line of exploitation melodramas that just want to get a rise out of audiences, a film that uses its nominal issue as an excuse to put thuggish violence, lecherous nudity and crude profanity on screen. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4118 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 febbraio 2009
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