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Sex against immigration! Honor killing! Terror teens! The star cast film "Crossing Over" to the consequences of legal and illegal immigration issue in California. The result? At least as honorable as failed.

 

It's always nice when Hollywood stars sometimes turn to smaller projects. Something with the right message and not always from the Kommerzeinerlei action blockbusters and romantic comedy. Sometimes even with the Oscar winning success that, as in "LA Crash" by Paul Haggis from the year 2005: glamor Gutmenschen like Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon and Don Cheadle were doing that because in order to set a sign against racism in the everyday Los Angeles.

"LA Crash" seems to be the blueprint to have been for "Crossing Over", Wayne Kramers attempt to address the problems of illegal and legal immigrants in California to be closer. By weaving together episodes and a rather impressive cast of Harrison Ford and Ray Liotta about Ashley Judd, the Panoptikum a social imbalance be extended, committed and with the times.

The Grenzcop Max (Ford) meets in a raid on a Mexican, which must be expelled immediately, but her young son behind, then the Max, from a bad conscience tormented, trying to find. His colleague Hamid (Cliff Curtis), successful and seemingly well integrated policeman with Iranian roots, however, must address issues of honor and family loyalty deal of controversy as its western-based conservative sister and his father starts to escalate. An Australian actress (Alice Eve) tries to get her green card through sex with an unscrupulous officials (Liotta) to erschlafen. His wife (Judd) in turn supervises a Muslim family, which threatens auseinanderzubrechen after the teenage daughter in the terrorist suspect. Then there is a Korean boy (Justin Chon), shortly before his naturalization, but also from a career as a member of a gang. And a British musician (Jim Stuergess), of his Jewish background as a ticket for a residence permit to use tried.

Now is also signed "LA Crash" is not always an excess of subtlety from. But "Crossing Over" is so fixated on stories allerhaarsträubendsten (sex against immigration! Honor killing! Terror Teenies !!!), that sometime in the credibility nagt. The actors provide superior work, but in almost every narrative strand, the fate so cruel to that someday they will no longer remain as a facial expression of shock and deep concern. Only in the history of the Jewish musician is occasionally a little too cheerful, then what the face of misery trappings again may not fit properly.

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Some plot lines - especially Ford - are gripping and suspenseful told, but are undermined by the silly compulsion, that the stories always eventually intersect and influence them.

Is it an aging cop on them, just a lost child and then lost his mother to look for when you incidentally nor clarify any honor from killing him? If it does not exceed 30 in total of 113 minutes of film time arises?

"Crossing Over" has too much content and too little time for all good intentions into a convincing movie bundle.

And good intentions alone, which has never served.