Beyond Borders
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 24, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
15
Negative:
14
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38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Of this much I'm sure: It's an awful movie. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Beyond Borders keeps angling for a peace prize; it might have won more hearts and minds if it came together as a movie. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Star-driven, high-minded claptrap that, fatally, can't even rig a rooting interest in its central love story. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
The hard truth is that the line between being deadly earnest and unintentionally silly is thinner than these people think, and Beyond Borders turns out to be an unreal film about a real situation, unavoidably cartoonish, as was the earlier "Tears of the Sun," in its attempt to join crucial issues to ridiculous melodrama. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
It all becomes little more than feel-good-about-feeling-bad window dressing, like an issue of "Utne Reader" in Dolby Surround Sound. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Worse than junk, in fact. Beyond Borders so trivializes the plight of the world's displaced peoples that it becomes actively obnoxious. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
This is a disastrously clumsy, heavy-handed movie, one so desperate and exploitative that it resorts to putting a live grenade in the hands of a baby in order to get its message across. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleC.W. Nevius
A film with its heart in the right place. Unfortunately, its head is stuck so far in the clouds that it dissolves into preachy do- gooder mush. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Such a staggering, start-to-finish disaster that you don't know how to begin detailing its outrages and failings. Read full review
20
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
All hope is lost for those trapped in theaters with this picture. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A sudsless soap opera with human misery as a backdrop for romantic banality.
20
Washington PostLibby Copeland
The premise of the movie deserves better. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
I came out of Beyond Borders with the gnawing feeling I'd just been subjected to some sort of ghastly prank, Punk’d by the director of "GoldenEye" with Lara Croft as his willing confederate. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Send a check to UNICEF and go see "Lost In Translation," "Mystic River," or "Kill Bill" instead. Read full review
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