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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasAs 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.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJolie, in this movie at least, has exactly two expressions: blank wistfulness and blank dismay. She reduces the tides of history to one more raided tomb.
- 50Chicago TribuneMark CaroChicago TribuneMark CaroBy 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.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigAngelina Jolie slums her way through Beyond Borders, a film that telegraphs its plot and then drags ploddingly, its humane spirit obscured by an inane script and Jolie's implausible character.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttEven 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.
- 40Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonIt'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.
- 40SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekHas a TV Movie of the Week righteousness about it -- you can feel the way the filmmakers and the director are struggling to educate us, even as they must surely know, deep in their hearts, that the florid, doomed romance is the real focus of the movie.
- 30VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyStar-driven, high-minded claptrap that, fatally, can't even rig a rooting interest in its central love story.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe 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.
- 20The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottAll hope is lost for those trapped in theaters with this picture.