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12/30/06
Beyond Borders (2003)
14 %
Reviews Counted: 98 Fresh: 14 Rotten:84 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus:
Beyond Borders is good-intentioned, but the use of human suffering as a backdrop for a romance comes across as sanctimonious and exploitative.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Synopsis: Director Martin Campbell (GOLDENEYE) balances a romantic tale, serious political commentary, and beautifully shot scenery from exotic locations in BEYOND BORDERS. Oscar winner Angelina Jolie gives a moving performance inspired by her real-life U.N. work, and has the perfect romantic... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich
Director: Martin Campbell
Screenwriter: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Producer: Dan Halsted, Lloyd Phillips
Composer: James Horner
Screenwriter: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Producer: Dan Halsted, Lloyd Phillips
Composer: James Horner
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Top Critic
...brutally haunting images ... in a setting where sappy dialogue evaporates like water.
09/20/04
Se abordar os esforços humanitários ao redor do planeta é admirável, colocá-los em segundo plano para priorizar uma história de amor é mais do que frustrante; é imperdoável.
03/17/04
Beyond Borders trivializes the pain and suffering of actual people by reducing them to a backdrop for Hollywood twaddle.
01/01/04
Affecting moments appear sporadically in Beyond Borders, but they can’t amend for the movie’s lack of shame.
11/22/03
While most movies insist on having 'plots,' this one boldly proceeds without one, flying in the face of convention.
11/04/03
Those expecting Jolie's character to end up feeding and clothing every indigent person on the planet might be surprised at the movie's toughness and refusal to compromise.
11/04/03
Beyond Borders should have been to relief efforts what Schindler’s List was to the Holocaust. Or what Saving Private Ryan was to WWII.
11/02/03
The idea of people from the West, previously indifferent, who immerse themselves in sickness and war in an effort to make a difference has been explored less melodramatically in an ongoing story arc on TV's E.R.
10/30/03
A silly movie made all the more silly by how much it wants not to be a silly movie.
10/30/03
Beyond Borders can be wrenching and vigorously committed, but it’s also occasionally tasteless and calculating. Think Doctor Zhivago with landmines.
10/30/03
Beyond Borders is one of those rare big-budget films that has something of vital importance to say about the real world, and pulls no punches saying it.
10/28/03
This pop nugget of McHistory, for all of its aspirations to sermonize, never elevates beyond a simplistic morality tale of, well, black and white.
10/28/03
It would all be perfectly ridiculous if it werenÕt so gosh-darn moving, in that Hollywood way that makes you hate yourself for crying, hand me another Kleenex, dammit.
10/28/03
It all becomes little more than feel-good-about- feeling-bad window dressing, like an issue of Utne Reader in Dolby Surround Sound.
10/28/03
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