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Crossworlds [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this adventure of an intergalactic war where one unassuming young man holds the key to dimensional travel and the legacy of his mysterious adventurer father. Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker stand-in, a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter who is roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson.

This obviously low budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings--notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind game hanging in space and a knock-down, drag-out finale that sends our hapless hero popping up all over the universe. Hauer makes for a surprisingly charismatic mercenary turned father figure and Charles is modestly charming, once he loses the smart-ass wisecracks. Though it reaches for a scope that's beyond its means, Crossworlds is an entertaining bit of sci-fi fluff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com


Childish nonsense
Review date: 2007-11-19 Rating: 4 out of 10

Feeble sub-Stargate stuff. No internal logic, no rationale linking the stagey implausible episodes, no narrative coherence, no reason to keep watching and a terrible waste of the inestimable Rutger Hauer.

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Plot sounded good
Review date: 2006-02-07 Rating: 4 out of 10

The plot sounded good but the film bombed! The acting was pretty bad and some of the chatter between the characters sounded like the director hadn’t read the next bit of the script, or it was written by different people in different rooms – who never met, or read eachothers work (etc).
For instance at one point the 'main character' is ranting that this is insane etc etc and in the next breath he says he's having fun and wouldn’t want to miss out (and it doesn't come across as sarcasm), the facial expression and body language are (at nearly all times), totally at odds with what the people are saying or doing.
Basically this is a very shaky film that seems to have been thrown together and released with little to no editing. If you can stay interested to the end you are treated to the main characters seeming to get together though there is no chemistry between them from what we could see through out the entire film. – You’ll also regret the loss of an hour and a half you could have spent cleaning your oven.

Booooooring
Review date: 2005-01-13 Rating: 4 out of 10

Being a scifi and Rutger Hauer fan, I had expected much from this movie....too much. The story is good but very poorly put into a movie. After the first hour it really became a drag to finish it.

Two inches short of fantastic
Review date: 2004-12-31 Rating: 8 out of 10

I love this movie.
I love the ideas it plays with, and I love how it's executed. Even though it's kinda low budget, it manages to bring across an air of mystery that is infectious.
I guess I've just always enjoyed stories that involve hidden worlds; things unseen by ordinary people. This film does multiple dimensions in style.
I think the moment I fell in love with it (as opposed to just enjoying it) was the scene where the protagonist goes to visit a member of the underground. It's at a point in the film where he's finally worked out that this is all very real and that he can't just walk up to the front door and expect to enter Rutger Hauer's secret hiding place. No. To get there, you have to take a left through the garden and walk between two innocuous trees. THEN open the front door, and you're there. Failure to follow this exact path means you open the door into some fat guy's apartment instead of the underground lair. Classic.
Ultimately, this movie is let down by the fact that in the final climax, good triumphs over evil by being just a bit more violent. But by the time you reach that point, you don't really mind. I reccommend it highly.

Unstated gem - good but not great
Review date: 2001-04-11 Rating: 8 out of 10

At long last this little tinker has been released, with the actors managing to add sacrasm into what would of otherwise been your bog-standard sci-fi flick, makes for an entertaining hour and a half. It's a movie you'll want to watch again, the kind of movie you'd buy just to pull out once in a while. In particular, the acting performances and the abstract way of looking at things made this movie.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Rutger Hauer
Andrea Roth
Perry Anzilotti
Stuart Wilson
Josh Charles

Creators:
Rutger Hauer (Primary Contributor)
Josh Charles (Primary Contributor)
Krishna Rao (Writer)
Lloyd Segan (Producer)
Mark Amin (Producer)
Phillip B. Goldfine (Producer)
Rupert Harvey (Producer)
Stephen Hopkins (Producer)
Raman Rao (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781573623865
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 1573623865
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 1998-04-29
Universal product code (UPC): 031398677031
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
DVD layers: 1
DVD sides: 2
Picture format: LetterboxPan & Scan
Region code: 1
Running time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1996
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)

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