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Title: Well-Intentioned, But Hardly Convincing
Review: "Beyond Borders" was originally to be directed by Oliver Stone, and to star Kevin Costner and Cathrine Zeta Jones. Keep that in mind before you watch it. The completed film by Martin Campbell starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen retains one of the initial intentions of the film -- namely, love romance. ..Don't say the film opens your eyes. Write down the synopsis of the film, and see the impossible thing that the film requires us to believe. .. "Beyond Borders" is laudable in depicting them, yes, ... I sincerely hope that it does not symbolize what happened to the career of Angelina Jolie. (And "Beyond Borders" never even reached #10 of box ofice chart in America. What does that mean?)I know the film is a well-intentioned attempt to show the misery of these people, but if you really want to see the authentic accounts of refugees' lives, see Michael Winterbottom's "In This World." That is more realistic and shocking, too.
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