This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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.

this movie deals with a very sensitive subject to me,, illegal aliens and border crossings,, I will try and leave personal feelings out of it long enough to give a review.. Harisson ford plays a Border Patrol agent, his job is to stop the flow of illegal aliens crossing the border every single day.. also in the picture we have Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd, both who were very good, as our story progresses we see many different characters throughout the movie,, some get caught trying to cross over the border, and some make it,, Ray Liotta's character a bit shady he makes a deal with one of the pretty girls he busted, in order for her to get a green card,, she has to keep having sex with him. Harisson Ford meanwhile does something i'm sure a real life border patrol offieer wouldn't do,, he hides a family a starts try ing to help them stay in the country till they can get approved for a visa,, there are many pros and cons to this movie,, I liked the movie because it did present how things are dealth with at the Border Crossing,, and all of the bureaucracy that happens,,

This was a decent movie in the vein of Crash. It was all about the happenings in immigration offices, and followed several story lines, such as a girl who was the daughter of Bangladesh immigrants who presented a report in class on how you should look at the 9/11 terrorists as "human" and their motivations, and she wound up in trouble with the FBI;a social worker working with kids of prisoners;a crooked immigration worker who agrees to have sex with an Australian actress for two months so she can get her green card;an officer investigating crimes in Mexico;and a guy studying to be a rabbi.Overall, this wasn't too bad. It might have worked a little better if all the story lines had "collided" at the end. They were all effective though. It shows you can have a good movie with several concurrent story lines. I liked it. It had good performances, especially by Harrison Ford & Ray Liotta (in typical roles), and a great cast.** 1/2 out of ****

"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