I originally became interested in this because i remembered a news article about that the actor Shelley Malil (In the movie he is the father of the girl that gets deported with her mother for being a "terrorist") received life in prison for the attempted murder of his girlfriend, and this was his last movie. I know its kind of a weird way to find a movie you want to watch, but there it is.

This movie has a very powerful cast of different people. They play the roles of Mexican, Korean, Palestinian, Israeli, Australian and Persian. And they all have one goal in mind: to become an American citizen and live the American dream. They all have their own way of getting there, and while some succeed, some also fail. Their stories interweave and connect with each other.

Personally i would never move to the USA, but i can see the appeal for people in third world countries that the USA has. The question is: what would you sacrifice to become an American citizen? And what would you sacrifice in order to give your loved ones a fighting change in the land of "endless opportunities"? This movie tries to answer those questions, and in my opinion did that very well.

The movie follows the style of several stories interwoven throughout the plot, same as many successful ones before it i.e. Babel, Crash and that is just at the top of my head..

That being said, here we go..

The movie follows a very cold and truthful view about what people are willing to do to get what they think or believe are their dreams. It is not about that dream per say but about what you have to do to achieve it.. might it be to leave a loved one behind, give up on your hopes, sell yourself to the highest bidder or plain out hurt yourself..
What I liked about it, is how it shows you that after all the dust settles in you would discover that you might have gotten what you thought you wanted but you have lost something far more precious which is yourself and what is left is just not enough..
That the American Dream might not be the fairy tale that everyone is selling it out to be after all!!!

Of course since I liked the movie.. It is safe to say that the critics didn't..

The film received negative reviews.

On Rotten Tomatoes the movie received 16%, of 106 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 4.1/10.
The site's consensus reads that: "Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability."

Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 38 based on reviews from 31 critics indicating "generally unfavourable reviews".

However, I invite you to check it out.. It is worth the watch..