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Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Linus Roache
  • Summary: A romance between a medical student turned international disaster relief worker (Owen) and a philanthropist socialite (Jolie) develops over the years and against the backdrop of disasters and wars.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 31
  2. Negative: 14 out of 31
  1. Its heart is in the right place, and it doesn't flinch an iota from its duty of rubbing our faces in the horror of the Third World over the past two decades.
  2. 50
    By throwing so much weight to the love story and increasingly contrived setups, the movie does what you secretly, guiltily hope it will do: It lets you off the hook.
  3. 50
    When the suffering of real children is used to enhance the image of movie stars who fall in love against the backdrop of their suffering, a certain decency is lacking. Beyond Borders wants it both ways -- glamor up front, and human misery in the background to lend it poignancy.
  4. Of this much I'm sure: It's an awful movie.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Negative: 8 out of 12
  1. [Anonymous]
    4
    Shows what goes on in the darker parts of the world, but did they have to throw in that LOUSY romance?!!
  2. The romance in the movie is so cliché and banal, it almost hurts. The actors (who otherwise can act) are very wooden and lifeless. The movie ssimplifies every theme it want the viewer to be concerned about. Not recommended. Expand
  3. Honestly i think that Jolie it's a great model I've tried very hard to see her as an actress but her performances are just BAD I could think of a dozen better actress for this roll, it is a good attempt to represent the overseas world and way of life but the story surrounding Jolie's character it's very unnecessary. Expand

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