Majorthebys Charming and brutal

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Anders Twetman When it comes to movies, I find that good writing, and a few creative ideas, can make up for a lack of budget or otherwise cheap look and feel. When the writing fails however, poor execution becomes ever so much more apparent. Crossover suffers quite badly from this, the cinematography, visual effects, music, setting, and acting are all a bit shoddy, yet it is clear the director was aiming for a film that looked cool, rather than at any quality story telling. The movie suffers further from not knowing what it is, art of it is a sports movie, part of it is a hip-hop gangsta' type thing, and part of it is "love" story. Like many other multi-purpose things, it doesn't do any one ting very well, and ends up feeling very underwhelming. So far so bad, what really makes this thing annoying (and thus makes it worthy of such a low grade) is that all the conflict in it, there are several smaller ones besides the main one, is oh so very forced. As such, they are also quickly resolved without consequence. Forced conflict that has no bearing on the story is a waste of paper, and a waste of my time.

TheQuietStorm someone asked? Hmm... Where should I start? Well, let's start with the blueprint: screenplay.The dialogue was on-the-nose, predictable babbling about nothing. The jokes were even worse. The characters were less than one dimensional while accomplishing all sorts of inconsistencies, which attributed to outrageous behavior. I mean, at one point, the main character was just having a nervous breakdown for absolutely nothing, for the sake of drama. The plot was as believable as Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer. And even with the absurd plot, the writing failed to be original at all levels. I mean, we saw the same subplots done before in way more superior films like "White Men Can't Jump".The directing was Amateur night at the Apollo. He did nothing with the camera or the blocking of the actors to make me believe he has an ounce of talent in his body. And the shots were so flat and uninteresting. I hope they shot the movie on HD. I'd hate to think one can make film stock look so bad.The acting was the worst. Inappropriate and unjustified outbursts of anger, straight line readings off the page and so much wooden actions/reactions that it started to look like a smörgåsbord for termites.And the basketball playing was terrible, even from the actors who are known for basketball, like Hot Sauce. They made a big mistake trying to pass off Anthony Mackie as some ballplayer. He looked uncomfortable with the basketball every time he touched it. I had a hard time watching him.Uneventful montages. Glossy cinematography looking like someone's home VHS camera. Lame jokes. Inept editing.You know when you have watched a bad film? When you're a passionate cinephile and after watching the film, it was so bad, you're left with a temporary bad taste in your mouth for movie making since the beginning of time. This film is that bad.

lmc3 It is obvious that this movie was made in someone's basement with light off. It is a terrible attempt at making a movie, and the writers next project should be in a college course on screen writing, better yet Acting 099. Please do not waste your time, because I did. Time is something that you can not get back. The acting was terrible and the plot was even worse. There were many mistakes for example during the last scene the numbers on one of the characters uniform were backwards as if you were looking into a mirror. The lines from the characters sounded rehearsed as if they were being read directly from a script. I really believe that ANYONE with a good idea for making a movie has better potential at being successful than this movie. I am a movie buff and I promise you this movie is AWFUL.

mstalltammi OK.. first of all Wayne Brady should be shot for doing so terrible! Johnathan Wesley should have had enough experience to do better than he did! I mean after all he did play "Sweetness" in Roll Bounce which was only a tad bit better! Eva The Winner from America's Next Top Model should definitely stick to modeling! Her acting was so bad, that it seems like she was joking! I guess winning an award for acting is out of the question! At least it is, based on this movie! LOL. The rest of the cast, I had never seen and hopefully I won't ever see again! This movies was awful! THe plot was weak!They all need to take more acting classes IMMEDIATELY! I barely made it through the movie! This movie should have been called CrossOUT!!!!