Crossworlds

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Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this adventure of an intergalactic war and one unassuming young man who holds the key to dimensional travel, 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 to settle the fate of the universe. 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

Customer Reviews:

Could've been better.......2007-07-23

Could be confusing at times and definitely needed better writers. Not a movie i recommend at all. Too bad because they had a good storyline and good actors.

Enjoyable.......2006-12-01

I bought two sci-fi movies at the same time...this one and Velocity Trap. I have to say, I enjoyed Crossworlds far more than the other.

Low Budget.......2006-07-01

The plot and its development are extremely weak. Acting is marginal and special effects are questionable. What can I say, I love SciFi, have a thing about time travel flicks and enjoy punishing myself with B rated SciFi movies. If you're looking for quality entertainment, then this is not the choice for you. If you're a nut about SciFi, go for it Bro.

Cheesy Sci-Fi flick only has *some* good things to offer, but its really silly..........2005-11-12

Josh Charles (S.W.A.T., Tv's Sports Night) finds out that he is the bearer of a key that can make you travel into different dimensions. Andrea Roth brings him to her friend, played by Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher, Sin City) who guides Charles and tells him that his father was a timedimensional warrior and that he could be too as well. On the evil end, baddie Stuart Wilson (No Escape, The Mask of Zorro) wants the key and the septer that goes along with it so he can fuse worlds together and be the ruler and what not and the trio must bring back the septer to the right place before evil hands get on it and the fate of the world is at risk. Interesting idea is squandered by sillyness and dumb dialouge and some pretty crummy acting, altough Charles saves this from being a total disaster. It's good to see Hauer not being a bad guy but he's wasted along with Wilson. AND, well, it was surprising to see Jack Black (School of Rock, King Kong) in this movie...one before he became famous. Black does his mannerisms and speech. Watch it once and then dimension jump the hell out of the room.

Ham and Cheese with Rye.......2005-08-20

This was obviously a pilot for a proposed TV series that never made it out of the cutting room. Josh Charles plays a heroic nerd whose special power seems to be being able to take a punch in the face and bounce right back. Andrea Roth is the cheesecake who motivates Josh's character to go from zero to hero in 90 minutes and Rutger Hauer is a cross between Obiwon Kenobi and Han Solo with a touch of Mad Max thrown in for style.

The company that made "She-Ra, Princess of Power" should probably have sued for copyright infringement (and that may be why nothing ever came out of this pproject) because there are strong similarities between the two stories. Princess Adora - er, Andrea Roth plays a mighty female warrior from a parallel dimension conquered long ago by mystical Warlords. One of those Warlords wants to invade Earth's dimension but for some strange reason - even though he and his henchmen bounce back and forth freely between the two worlds - needs a mystical staff and gem hidden in our world to bring his army through.

The Final Battle between Charles and the Warlord seems to be stolen from the ending of Waxworks II, which was done much better in my humble opinion. Still, there's worse dreck out there and Hauer is a pleasure to watch so I'm giving it 3 stars for trying.

Average customer rating:

Could've been better
Enjoyable
Low Budget
Cheesy Sci-Fi flick only has *some* good things to offer, but its really silly...
Ham and Cheese with Rye

Crossworlds [Region 2]
Starring: Rutger Hauer , Josh Charles , Stuart Wilson (II) , Andrea Roth , and Perry Anzilotti
Director: Krishna Rao
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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