Crossover (2006)

Certified airball

Yeah this movie made the IMDb bottom list for a good reason. Its stinks. We've seen this type of movie before with Above The Rim and Sunset Park but at least those movies were appealing. This movie is pretty much a brick.

Premise: Cruise(Wesley Johnathan) and Tech(Anthony Mackie) are friends who have aspirations besides playing streetball. Cruise wants to go to college and Tech wants to pass his GED and go to college as well. Along the way of hustling people in streetball, they meet up with two women(played by Alicia Fears and Eva Pigford) as well as an unscrupulous promoter/agent Vaughn(played by Wayne Brady) who does anything in his power to sign Cruise and Tech.

Opinion: The storyline is predictable and the acting is subpar. Its not like Wesley Johnathan and Anthony Mackie cant act. On the contrary they have potential but the juvenile script kills them. Cruise is a goofball and Tech is childish and annoying. Eva Pigford is terrible but Alicia Fears shows some promise. Wayne Brady is funnier trying to be serious in this movie than his corny stand-up routines. Plus what would movies like this be without cliches and stereotypes. Tech is a reprehensible punk black man who not only puts his hands on the girl who genuinely likes him but he even comes close to punching her and Eva Pigford's character after he finds out that she sold Cruise out to a magazine. What black movie is complete without a black man who misdirects his anger beats up on women and drinks his pain away instead of taking his anger out on the people who caused his grief? Eva Pigford's character is a typical hood harlot who uses Cruise with the pregnant routine and dumps him when she realizes that he is not going to California and he is not going to play pro basketball. Gotta love the sickening portrayal of black women as golddiggers in these films by Follywood. And the scene where the hoodrat was mouthing off about her no good boyfriend was to die for. You get the drift. This movie plays like a poorly written soap opera with stereotypes and cliches thrown into the mix. Then it tries to tug at your heartstrings with Cruise ending up in the hospital after an accident and tries to justify Tech coming within a hairsbreadth of punching out Eva Pigford's character after that she might have leaked the news of Cruise playing a street B-ball game with a rival basketball crew called "Platinum" for money. This film wallows in its predictability, stereotypes and cliches like a pig does mud. Yeah the edited basketball scenes are nice to look at but when that is all a movie has going for it than its a waste of precious time. Dont listen to the shills who gave this slop more than two stars. Crossover sucks deflated basketballs. He aims, he shoots, BRICK!!! May 20, 2008

i didnt buy this for myself

I guess this is ok, a friend of mine ordered it and i havent heard anything bad about it so it must be good January 7, 2008

I wish I could rate it lower than this!!!

This movie sucked from beginning to end. In fact, the ending was the best part. The acting was terrible at best, the plot was lame, the storyline and script was predictable, and for this to be a hooping movie, there were only 2 legit games. And the games were poorly staged rehearsals. They're staged in all b-ball movies, but these were hideous. The best actor was Lil' J.J., and since he's a comedian, he doesn't even count. May 25, 2007

lets see..... very boring.

This movie reminds me of one of those lame B.E.T MOVIES.
or some lame black soap opera.
May 5, 2007

Watchable...

This is a pretty good movie, better than what i expected. one reason why i watched this move is because wayne Brady is in it. I'm glad he's finally in a full length movie. he should do some more. April 5, 2007

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