Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

kenjha A motley group of immigrants tries to get green cards in Los Angeles. This variation on "Crash" is letdown by a melodramatic and contrived script, courtesy of director Kramer. It's meant to be poignant and dramatic in conveying the plight of the immigrant, but it amounts to little more than clichés. The characters are one-dimensional stereotypes: the defiant Muslim, the babe willing to sleep her way to a green card, the Korean kid tempted by gangs, the sleazy immigration official. None of the characters seeking legal status is portrayed as likable or sympathetic. Ford and Judd are unbelievably saintly as bleeding heart liberals. Despite all its shortcomings, however, the film does manage to be entertaining.

Mark Mull An OK movie that holds sentimental elements that would appeal to the average American. Full of unrealistic/unusual situations that do not represent the average experience of immigrants. Movie is just a movie and not a depiction of the average experience of people, thus following mainstream Hollywood focus, alas drama, exaggeration, and stereotypes. While it conveys the patriotic feeling of most Americans, it totally lacks a fair representation of the feelings of people towards their homeland. It makes, however, a good point on issues of family separation that might appeal to the average Americans. The same issues and situations could easily be applied to other first world nations around the world that also struggle with immigration issues.

tieman64 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.

driverscience Wow, this really shows the worst of real-life situations and the total insanity that is the U.S. immigration system. It hit me at a core of my personal and religious beliefs that spoke loud and clear, that the whole idea of immigration and nationalism is insane. And I did study psychology and I mean insane, right up there with delusional schizophrenia.I see now, that nationalism is the worst sickness to ever be inflicted upon the planet. It is truly a mental illness by all definitions of the word. I would never support the INS. What a bunch of lost people, breaking all the higher laws of human rights and going against the will of God.This is pure pure pure insanity. When will people wake up? Loved the film, because it so clearly showed what a bunch of crazy insane people the human race is. Wake up! National sovereignty is insanity. Sovereignty should be only at the individual level, where it only logically deserves to be.