Technical : In this movie the sound of the next scene starts before while the previous scene is fading out. This is a standard effect used in almost all Hollywood movies. It is not suitable for one situation in this movie. It is unpleasant for Muslims to hear Quran while the display shows nudity.About Story Line: This movie is an eye opener from the beginning about immigration to USA. The stereo type are very real. Very real acting. At a point it discourages all who think to move to the land of opportunity. And later it also shows by a positive ending that USA is still a good place to plan your life around. The consequences shown are very moving such as people who die. And also the ratio of fraud and getting away was very real.

In recent months I have watched few movies which have infuriated me more than this one.Starts well but quickly descends into farce as a bunch of ethnic stereotypes lurch from one predictable crisis to another in a series of tangled story arcs.Harrison Ford (starting in a role better suited to Ben Affleck, who withdrew from the production citing 'stomach trouble') does his best with what he's given, but to no avail.I found myself despising most of the people I was supposed to empathise with because they had either gratuitously broken the law and/or were simply objectionable.Why should I feel sorry for the Bengali family who entered America illegally not because they were refugees (they weren't) but simply because they couldn't be bothered to go through the proper channels? They're just irritating ******. Sod 'em! How can I empathise with the Australian wannabe actress who cuts an illegal deal with an immigration officer, exchanging back door access for... er... back door access?This could have been an excellent drama about the complex issues facing legal and illegal immigrants, but the scriptwriters were either too scared or too lazy to do the job properly.It's an intensely frustrating movie because you can see what it could have been, but it never actually gets there.'Crossing Over' currently sits at 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, where it has been justifiably savaged as 'Tired, preachy and about as thought-provoking as a Blackpool hen party howling We Are The World on karaoke.'Give this lemon a wide berth and watch 'Crash' (2005) instead.I rate 'Crossing Over' at 13.32 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a solid 4/10 on IMDb.

Wayne Kramer's "Crossing Over" consists of several interlocking short stories, all dealing with immigration, culture clashes, power abuse and extortion. Derivative of "Crash" and "Grand Canyon", each story is also a collection of clichés.Kramer's attempting to knit a grand tapestry. One of his tales observes as immigrant Mireyna Sanchez is deported from America to Mexico. Another tale focuses on a teenage Bangladeshi who is bullied for sympathising with the 9/11 hijackers, leading again to deportation, this time due to FBI investigations. More deportations occur when immigration officer Cole Frankel blackmails a beautiful actress – desperate for a green card – into sleeping with him. Things go bad, he loses his job and she's booted from the United Unites. The film's packed with similar stories, the silliest of which involves a group of South Korean teenagers who are pushed into gang violence. It's all very heavy-handed.Each of the film's subplots involves a figure of authority abusing power to the benefit or detriment of immigrants. One such incident, for example, sees Gavin Kossey, an atheist Jew, being allowed to stay in the United States because a rabbi lies on his behalf. These actions lend the film's title a double meaning: to "cross over" to the "other side" (ie, to help the Other, to see through the Other's eyes).While Kramer is clearly attempting to portray immigrants and minorities in a sympathetic light, the film also does the opposite: all immigrants here are resorting to prostitution, are fundamentalists, America bashers, murderers, ritual killers, follow barbaric rituals etc. It's an unintentional byproduct of an overly sensationalistic script.6/10 - Trades in the condescending insights of generic race-relations movies ("Babel", "Higher Learning", "Crash" etc). Worth one viewing.

Crossing over is a multi-strand drama telling a mixture of stories involving the US Immigration Service. All the stories are interesting, with some being more powerful than others.The film is strongly cast - Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta head things up - and well performed, with the acting accolades going to some of the performers lower down the cast list: Summer Bishil as teenager Taslima is a knockout, and Alice Eve as Aussie Claire is also very good.There are good points made, and made well, and the film benefits from the fact that many of the characters are morally ambiguous. There are no glib, easy answers.This is film is entertaining, interesting, occasionally very heavy duty, and worthwhile.