Beyond Borders (Full Screen Edition)
Starring:Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich, Yorick van Wageningen, Timothy West, Kate Trotter, Jonathan Higgins, John Gausden, Isabelle Horler, Iain Lee, Keelan Anthony, John Bourgeois, Kalyane Tea, Julian Casey, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Aidan Pickering, Nambitha Mpumlwana, Fikile Nyandeni
Director: Martin Campbell
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Average customer rating:
- WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE
- A Tale In Two Minds
- Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo
- Lovely
- Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film...
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Beyond Borders (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Angelina Jolie , Clive Owen , Teri Polo , Linus Roache , and Noah Emmerich
Director: Martin Campbell
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Release Date: 2004-03-23 |
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE.......2007-05-08
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY
A Tale In Two Minds.......2007-01-21
The border in this film which is beyond belief is that of credibilty. The drama's tone is disturbingly melodramatic with the Relief Doctor's appearance at a high society fund-raising ball in London. We can accept this though, given the painful urgency of his message. But when Jolie quits her poor husband to Ethiopia in pursuit of responding to well-intended empathy for the war and famine stricken camps, the balance of the film gets crazily out of whack, and never recovers. It's not to say that romantic love has no place in such dire life circumstances. More, the film makes this point above the far more expressive needs of the people who the aid workers are there to service. Quite addled really, and undrermining all other high-minded and serious utterances made by the lead actors. In Ethiopa, in particular, this seemed in errant taste. The conceptual work is at the root of this.
Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo.......2006-11-25
This movie was different then I thought it was going to be. I rented it because the cover of the movie gave me the impression it was a love story. But this movies back drop was about poor, starving third world countries at the humanitarians who try to help them, and two of the humanitarians fall in love, and one dies at the end. That is basically the plot.
I thought the movie overall was ok. I wish it would have made a better job at the love story in this. The love story didnt flow well with the film. It was scripted well into blending with the third world country theme. Excellent acting again I say by Clive Owen. When he cries in this film it was so good. I am waiting for him to win a oscar. He got close with the film Closer. He made me cry off and on through this whole movie with his emotion.
Nicole M*
Lovely.......2006-11-23
Ok, you will say I loved this movie BECAUSE I support Clive all the way. But NO LOL The story was beautiful and the places they went to help the children and families was marvelous. It was amazing how they created the city in the middle of the desert too! Great cast and it was not fair that Angie Jolie won the Razzie, I think she did great!
What an ending though...tragic and lovely. Clive looked HOT even while he was captured.
Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film..........2006-10-24
`Beyond Borders' starts off brilliantly, and it continues down that turf for quite sometime before veering off the beaten path and heading straight into generic Hollywood fluff. The prose established in the outset of a young socialite named Sarah Jordan (Jolie) who has her eyes and mind opened by relief worker named Nick Callahan (Owen) caught my attention, and for the most part the film initially played out like a coming of age film about a woman who was unaware of the horrors others face and became determined to help in everyway that she could. To me Angelina made this character a part of her, since I truly believe that this character is a part of her, and thus made Sarah a very believable person.
Sarah is married to Henry Bauford (Roache) but their marriage has been falling apart for years. They mostly stay together for the sake of their son Jimmy. Sarah has since her initial visit to Ethiopia become a member of the UN and, when Nick and his partner Elliott (Emmerich) need supplies sent to them in Cambodia she takes this as an opportunity to escape her philandering husband and venture off to this country to help those in need. It's while there that she realizes her attraction and or love for Nick and the two of them begin to struggle with the thought of their future since Sarah has a son and needs to be with her family where Nick is so attached to his work that a normal life is something he'll never have.
As much as I was not looking forward to a romantic nor dare I say tragic love story I was alright with the sudden change of pace when these two star crossed lovers began to switch focus from the dying children to each other. What threw me was the sudden shift into action adventure thriller when Nick's hot head gets him kidnapped and Sarah rushes out to Chechnya to save him. To me this movie would have been better served if it had kept its focus on its humanitarian side and left the action out for it somewhat robs the movie of its dramatic nature and turns it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster, which in my opinion it shouldn't have been. `Beyond Borders' has a lot of important things to say, and if it had kept focus on those important matters then the outcome would have been a better film, but instead it feels too compelled to add the romance and add the adventure to make it appealing to every audience that it loses the audience that would normally embrace it.
I will say that the acting on all fronts elevates this film and delivers a bit of realism. Every tear that Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen shed feel real and genuine. Nothing feels forced or out of character. Some have said they feel Angelina was miscast, and I will admit that in the end when she goes from her humanitarian care giver to Lara Croft Tomb Raider I felt she stepped out of character and created a new one, she still was every bit convincing. I just feel that this movie forgot what it was trying to prove and allowed the pressure to be a box office blockbuster, to draw in a large crowd, cloud their judgment and caused them to sabotage what could have been a dynamic film. That said I was still very impressed and will most likely enjoy this film again; I'm just disappointed for with such a brilliant and original start I would have liked to see a less generic and more focused ending.
Average customer rating:
- WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE
- A Tale In Two Minds
- Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo
- Lovely
- Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film...
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Beyond Borders (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Angelina Jolie , Clive Owen , Teri Polo , Linus Roache , and Noah Emmerich
Director: Martin Campbell
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ASIN: B0001AW02K
Release Date: 2004-03-23 |
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE.......2007-05-08
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY
A Tale In Two Minds.......2007-01-21
The border in this film which is beyond belief is that of credibilty. The drama's tone is disturbingly melodramatic with the Relief Doctor's appearance at a high society fund-raising ball in London. We can accept this though, given the painful urgency of his message. But when Jolie quits her poor husband to Ethiopia in pursuit of responding to well-intended empathy for the war and famine stricken camps, the balance of the film gets crazily out of whack, and never recovers. It's not to say that romantic love has no place in such dire life circumstances. More, the film makes this point above the far more expressive needs of the people who the aid workers are there to service. Quite addled really, and undrermining all other high-minded and serious utterances made by the lead actors. In Ethiopa, in particular, this seemed in errant taste. The conceptual work is at the root of this.
Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo.......2006-11-25
This movie was different then I thought it was going to be. I rented it because the cover of the movie gave me the impression it was a love story. But this movies back drop was about poor, starving third world countries at the humanitarians who try to help them, and two of the humanitarians fall in love, and one dies at the end. That is basically the plot.
I thought the movie overall was ok. I wish it would have made a better job at the love story in this. The love story didnt flow well with the film. It was scripted well into blending with the third world country theme. Excellent acting again I say by Clive Owen. When he cries in this film it was so good. I am waiting for him to win a oscar. He got close with the film Closer. He made me cry off and on through this whole movie with his emotion.
Nicole M*
Lovely.......2006-11-23
Ok, you will say I loved this movie BECAUSE I support Clive all the way. But NO LOL The story was beautiful and the places they went to help the children and families was marvelous. It was amazing how they created the city in the middle of the desert too! Great cast and it was not fair that Angie Jolie won the Razzie, I think she did great!
What an ending though...tragic and lovely. Clive looked HOT even while he was captured.
Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film..........2006-10-24
`Beyond Borders' starts off brilliantly, and it continues down that turf for quite sometime before veering off the beaten path and heading straight into generic Hollywood fluff. The prose established in the outset of a young socialite named Sarah Jordan (Jolie) who has her eyes and mind opened by relief worker named Nick Callahan (Owen) caught my attention, and for the most part the film initially played out like a coming of age film about a woman who was unaware of the horrors others face and became determined to help in everyway that she could. To me Angelina made this character a part of her, since I truly believe that this character is a part of her, and thus made Sarah a very believable person.
Sarah is married to Henry Bauford (Roache) but their marriage has been falling apart for years. They mostly stay together for the sake of their son Jimmy. Sarah has since her initial visit to Ethiopia become a member of the UN and, when Nick and his partner Elliott (Emmerich) need supplies sent to them in Cambodia she takes this as an opportunity to escape her philandering husband and venture off to this country to help those in need. It's while there that she realizes her attraction and or love for Nick and the two of them begin to struggle with the thought of their future since Sarah has a son and needs to be with her family where Nick is so attached to his work that a normal life is something he'll never have.
As much as I was not looking forward to a romantic nor dare I say tragic love story I was alright with the sudden change of pace when these two star crossed lovers began to switch focus from the dying children to each other. What threw me was the sudden shift into action adventure thriller when Nick's hot head gets him kidnapped and Sarah rushes out to Chechnya to save him. To me this movie would have been better served if it had kept its focus on its humanitarian side and left the action out for it somewhat robs the movie of its dramatic nature and turns it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster, which in my opinion it shouldn't have been. `Beyond Borders' has a lot of important things to say, and if it had kept focus on those important matters then the outcome would have been a better film, but instead it feels too compelled to add the romance and add the adventure to make it appealing to every audience that it loses the audience that would normally embrace it.
I will say that the acting on all fronts elevates this film and delivers a bit of realism. Every tear that Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen shed feel real and genuine. Nothing feels forced or out of character. Some have said they feel Angelina was miscast, and I will admit that in the end when she goes from her humanitarian care giver to Lara Croft Tomb Raider I felt she stepped out of character and created a new one, she still was every bit convincing. I just feel that this movie forgot what it was trying to prove and allowed the pressure to be a box office blockbuster, to draw in a large crowd, cloud their judgment and caused them to sabotage what could have been a dynamic film. That said I was still very impressed and will most likely enjoy this film again; I'm just disappointed for with such a brilliant and original start I would have liked to see a less generic and more focused ending.
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Charlie Rose with Angelina Jolie; William Petersen; Mehmet Oz (October 24, 2003)
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Release Date: 2006-08-15 |
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Angelina Jolie, actress and UN goodwill ambassador, on her film, Beyond Borders. Next, actor William Petersen on his role in the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Finally, Dr. Mehmet Oz of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, on his television show Second Opinion with Dr. Oz.
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Shades of Soul: Beyond Borders
Starring: Shades of Soul-Beyond Borders
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Release Date: 2005-01-25 |
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Soledad: A former slave and an exploited flamenco dance have a profound chance encounter. The Station: A brief encounter between a young African American man in rural Japan and two Japanese girls escalates into an unfortunate misunderstanding. Young Americans: The lives of three young professional killers collide in this story of revenge, betrayal and desire.Black Sheep: An African American man teaching English in Japan deals with cultural and emotional barriers. Aidas Awakening: A beautiful Creole girl embraces her voodoo heritage and ceremoniously embarks on womanhood.
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- WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE
- A Tale In Two Minds
- Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo
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- Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film...
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Beyond Borders [Region 2]
Starring: Angelina Jolie , Clive Owen , Teri Polo , Linus Roache , and Noah Emmerich
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE.......2007-05-08
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY
A Tale In Two Minds.......2007-01-21
The border in this film which is beyond belief is that of credibilty. The drama's tone is disturbingly melodramatic with the Relief Doctor's appearance at a high society fund-raising ball in London. We can accept this though, given the painful urgency of his message. But when Jolie quits her poor husband to Ethiopia in pursuit of responding to well-intended empathy for the war and famine stricken camps, the balance of the film gets crazily out of whack, and never recovers. It's not to say that romantic love has no place in such dire life circumstances. More, the film makes this point above the far more expressive needs of the people who the aid workers are there to service. Quite addled really, and undrermining all other high-minded and serious utterances made by the lead actors. In Ethiopa, in particular, this seemed in errant taste. The conceptual work is at the root of this.
Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo.......2006-11-25
This movie was different then I thought it was going to be. I rented it because the cover of the movie gave me the impression it was a love story. But this movies back drop was about poor, starving third world countries at the humanitarians who try to help them, and two of the humanitarians fall in love, and one dies at the end. That is basically the plot.
I thought the movie overall was ok. I wish it would have made a better job at the love story in this. The love story didnt flow well with the film. It was scripted well into blending with the third world country theme. Excellent acting again I say by Clive Owen. When he cries in this film it was so good. I am waiting for him to win a oscar. He got close with the film Closer. He made me cry off and on through this whole movie with his emotion.
Nicole M*
Lovely.......2006-11-23
Ok, you will say I loved this movie BECAUSE I support Clive all the way. But NO LOL The story was beautiful and the places they went to help the children and families was marvelous. It was amazing how they created the city in the middle of the desert too! Great cast and it was not fair that Angie Jolie won the Razzie, I think she did great!
What an ending though...tragic and lovely. Clive looked HOT even while he was captured.
Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film..........2006-10-24
`Beyond Borders' starts off brilliantly, and it continues down that turf for quite sometime before veering off the beaten path and heading straight into generic Hollywood fluff. The prose established in the outset of a young socialite named Sarah Jordan (Jolie) who has her eyes and mind opened by relief worker named Nick Callahan (Owen) caught my attention, and for the most part the film initially played out like a coming of age film about a woman who was unaware of the horrors others face and became determined to help in everyway that she could. To me Angelina made this character a part of her, since I truly believe that this character is a part of her, and thus made Sarah a very believable person.
Sarah is married to Henry Bauford (Roache) but their marriage has been falling apart for years. They mostly stay together for the sake of their son Jimmy. Sarah has since her initial visit to Ethiopia become a member of the UN and, when Nick and his partner Elliott (Emmerich) need supplies sent to them in Cambodia she takes this as an opportunity to escape her philandering husband and venture off to this country to help those in need. It's while there that she realizes her attraction and or love for Nick and the two of them begin to struggle with the thought of their future since Sarah has a son and needs to be with her family where Nick is so attached to his work that a normal life is something he'll never have.
As much as I was not looking forward to a romantic nor dare I say tragic love story I was alright with the sudden change of pace when these two star crossed lovers began to switch focus from the dying children to each other. What threw me was the sudden shift into action adventure thriller when Nick's hot head gets him kidnapped and Sarah rushes out to Chechnya to save him. To me this movie would have been better served if it had kept its focus on its humanitarian side and left the action out for it somewhat robs the movie of its dramatic nature and turns it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster, which in my opinion it shouldn't have been. `Beyond Borders' has a lot of important things to say, and if it had kept focus on those important matters then the outcome would have been a better film, but instead it feels too compelled to add the romance and add the adventure to make it appealing to every audience that it loses the audience that would normally embrace it.
I will say that the acting on all fronts elevates this film and delivers a bit of realism. Every tear that Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen shed feel real and genuine. Nothing feels forced or out of character. Some have said they feel Angelina was miscast, and I will admit that in the end when she goes from her humanitarian care giver to Lara Croft Tomb Raider I felt she stepped out of character and created a new one, she still was every bit convincing. I just feel that this movie forgot what it was trying to prove and allowed the pressure to be a box office blockbuster, to draw in a large crowd, cloud their judgment and caused them to sabotage what could have been a dynamic film. That said I was still very impressed and will most likely enjoy this film again; I'm just disappointed for with such a brilliant and original start I would have liked to see a less generic and more focused ending.
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Starring: Angelina Jolie , Clive Owen , Teri Polo , Linus Roache , and Noah Emmerich
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Romantic adventure, marital crisis, and the tragedy of global hunger are combined with mixed but respectable results in Beyond Borders, starring Angelina Jolie in a role that reflects her off-screen efforts as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Jolie plays a naive American socialite, unhappily married and living in London, whose life is revolutionized when a passionate doctor (Clive Owen, replacing original costar Kevin Costner) draws her into the cause of humanitarian aid in the world's most dangerous political hot-spots including Ethiopia, Cambodia (where Jolie adopted her first child), and Chechnya in the 1980s and '90s. Directed by Martin (Goldeneye) Campbell, who replaced Oliver Stone during troubled pre-production, this well-meaning film suffers from schizophrenic priorities: Is it a globetrotting love story? An impassioned political exposé? Powerful scenes and fine performances can't entirely offset the film's identity crisis, and the ending strives for a quality of martyrdom that it doesn't really earn. --Jeff Shannon
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WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE.......2007-05-08
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY
A Tale In Two Minds.......2007-01-21
The border in this film which is beyond belief is that of credibilty. The drama's tone is disturbingly melodramatic with the Relief Doctor's appearance at a high society fund-raising ball in London. We can accept this though, given the painful urgency of his message. But when Jolie quits her poor husband to Ethiopia in pursuit of responding to well-intended empathy for the war and famine stricken camps, the balance of the film gets crazily out of whack, and never recovers. It's not to say that romantic love has no place in such dire life circumstances. More, the film makes this point above the far more expressive needs of the people who the aid workers are there to service. Quite addled really, and undrermining all other high-minded and serious utterances made by the lead actors. In Ethiopa, in particular, this seemed in errant taste. The conceptual work is at the root of this.
Two movies subjects in one movie, bad combo.......2006-11-25
This movie was different then I thought it was going to be. I rented it because the cover of the movie gave me the impression it was a love story. But this movies back drop was about poor, starving third world countries at the humanitarians who try to help them, and two of the humanitarians fall in love, and one dies at the end. That is basically the plot.
I thought the movie overall was ok. I wish it would have made a better job at the love story in this. The love story didnt flow well with the film. It was scripted well into blending with the third world country theme. Excellent acting again I say by Clive Owen. When he cries in this film it was so good. I am waiting for him to win a oscar. He got close with the film Closer. He made me cry off and on through this whole movie with his emotion.
Nicole M*
Lovely.......2006-11-23
Ok, you will say I loved this movie BECAUSE I support Clive all the way. But NO LOL The story was beautiful and the places they went to help the children and families was marvelous. It was amazing how they created the city in the middle of the desert too! Great cast and it was not fair that Angie Jolie won the Razzie, I think she did great!
What an ending though...tragic and lovely. Clive looked HOT even while he was captured.
Lost its focus towards the end...but all in all 'Beyond Borders' is a great film..........2006-10-24
`Beyond Borders' starts off brilliantly, and it continues down that turf for quite sometime before veering off the beaten path and heading straight into generic Hollywood fluff. The prose established in the outset of a young socialite named Sarah Jordan (Jolie) who has her eyes and mind opened by relief worker named Nick Callahan (Owen) caught my attention, and for the most part the film initially played out like a coming of age film about a woman who was unaware of the horrors others face and became determined to help in everyway that she could. To me Angelina made this character a part of her, since I truly believe that this character is a part of her, and thus made Sarah a very believable person.
Sarah is married to Henry Bauford (Roache) but their marriage has been falling apart for years. They mostly stay together for the sake of their son Jimmy. Sarah has since her initial visit to Ethiopia become a member of the UN and, when Nick and his partner Elliott (Emmerich) need supplies sent to them in Cambodia she takes this as an opportunity to escape her philandering husband and venture off to this country to help those in need. It's while there that she realizes her attraction and or love for Nick and the two of them begin to struggle with the thought of their future since Sarah has a son and needs to be with her family where Nick is so attached to his work that a normal life is something he'll never have.
As much as I was not looking forward to a romantic nor dare I say tragic love story I was alright with the sudden change of pace when these two star crossed lovers began to switch focus from the dying children to each other. What threw me was the sudden shift into action adventure thriller when Nick's hot head gets him kidnapped and Sarah rushes out to Chechnya to save him. To me this movie would have been better served if it had kept its focus on its humanitarian side and left the action out for it somewhat robs the movie of its dramatic nature and turns it into a generic Hollywood blockbuster, which in my opinion it shouldn't have been. `Beyond Borders' has a lot of important things to say, and if it had kept focus on those important matters then the outcome would have been a better film, but instead it feels too compelled to add the romance and add the adventure to make it appealing to every audience that it loses the audience that would normally embrace it.
I will say that the acting on all fronts elevates this film and delivers a bit of realism. Every tear that Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen shed feel real and genuine. Nothing feels forced or out of character. Some have said they feel Angelina was miscast, and I will admit that in the end when she goes from her humanitarian care giver to Lara Croft Tomb Raider I felt she stepped out of character and created a new one, she still was every bit convincing. I just feel that this movie forgot what it was trying to prove and allowed the pressure to be a box office blockbuster, to draw in a large crowd, cloud their judgment and caused them to sabotage what could have been a dynamic film. That said I was still very impressed and will most likely enjoy this film again; I'm just disappointed for with such a brilliant and original start I would have liked to see a less generic and more focused ending.
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