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- 2003
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 7 m
- 2003
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 7 m
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.
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Written By: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
- 2003
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 7 m
- 2003
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 7 m
Beyond Borders
32
5.6
Where to Watch
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.
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Written By: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
32
6% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
48% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
45% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
32
6% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
48% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
45% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
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.
My advice: Skip Beyond Borders and write a check to the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.6
37% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
42% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.6
37% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
42% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
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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.
It's not a bad film, exactly, just a confused one, too violent to be a straight romance and too focused on aid relief to be an ass-kicking action flick.
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.
Worse than junk, in fact. Beyond Borders so trivializes the plight of the world's displaced peoples that it becomes actively obnoxious.
All hope is lost for those trapped in theaters with this picture.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Political Film Society, USA
• 1 Nomination
