Even though Beyond Borders certainly isn't the greatest love story ever told, the film still offers a plethora of fascinating, war-torn landscapes--and may inspire you to volunteer for the UN.
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10/24/03
Beyond Borders (2003)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:14
Rotten:85
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
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $4,394,454
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... [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache
Director: Martin Campbell
Reviews for Beyond Borders
Goes beyond the vanity project you’d think it to be.
10/24/03
third-world propaganda
10/24/03
An important and affecting story about relief workers gets buried under a syrupy romance.
10/24/03
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10/24/03
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10/24/03
Top CriticHopelessly kooky.
10/24/03
The picture holds up starving babies to score cheap emotional points, but it never bothers to look beyond the swollen bellies and swarming flies.
10/24/03
Beyond Borders devotes more time to one person's nobility (Angelina Jolie's) than to a world of suffering, and the result is offensive.
10/24/03
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10/24/03
What a beautiful film....I am not just talking about Jolie's usual exotic locals here...but two hours of watching Clive Owen all manly manned up...
10/24/03
The movie is mired in its good intentions, and ends up looking opportunistic and gauche.
10/24/03
An awful movie.
10/24/03
The tense action scenes work better than the implausible romance.
10/24/03
Never have we been forced to watch so many suffer needlessly for the sake of so few. And that’s what makes this film reprehensible.
10/24/03
Unconvincing, miscast and misdirected.
10/23/03
An idiotic love story with a backdrop of three different countries all containing starving people, Angelina Jolie's humanitarian vanity project is long, ridiculous, and morally repulsive to boot, a capital-I Issue in search of a story.
10/23/03
A sobering two hours.
10/23/03
A liberal video game that demeans the very refugees it tries to spotlight.
10/23/03
Top CriticBeyond Borders wants to have it both ways: give witness to crimes against humanity and tell a touching love story.
10/23/03
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