Beyond Borders
User Score
4.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 9 out of 19

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  1. Melanie
    Apr 27, 2004
    9
    Envokes emotion, and shows the reality of what is going on in other countries and no one cares.

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Metascore
32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 31
  3. Negative: 14 out of 31
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    40
    Even assuming the best possible motives by its makers, Beyond Borders runs the risk of making human suffering exotic while glamorizing white disaster relief workers in the Third World.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Star-driven, high-minded claptrap that, fatally, can't even rig a rooting interest in its central love story.
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  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    50
    As kitsch, however, it's pretty enjoyable. Jolie and Owen perform with such conviction, and the film -- blissfully unaware of its own badness -- takes its paperback-romance shenanigans with such goofy gravity, that it's easy to get caught up in the whole, soap-opera thrust of the thing.
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