CROSSWORLDS (1996)
A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 2003
Parallel universes motive is one of the more intriguing in the world of literary science fiction. In the world of science fiction cinema this motive is usually ignored for whole variety of reasons, most of them having much to do with filmmakers' budgetary or creative deficiencies. All those deficiencies become apparent when some brave filmmaker decides to use parallel universes in their work. One of such examples is CROSSWORLDS, 1996 science fiction film written and directed by Krishna Rao.
The protagonist of the film is Joe Talbot (played by Josh Charles), Californian college student in possession of crystal inherited from his late father. This crystal turns out to be the key over the control of various universes, and Joe becomes target of evil Warlords led by Ferris (played by Stuart Wilson). On the other hand, Joe receives help from beautiful Laura (played by Andrea Roth) and retired adventurer A.T. (played by Rutger Hauer).
CROSSWORLDS has intriguing opening title and mystical prologue promises that the rest of the film would be something quite extraordinary. Unfortunately, as soon as plot gets set in our world's California, even the less experienced consumers of B-movies are going to sense that the things are starting to go downhill. The plot and the whole mechanics of the fictional worlds are never properly explained through the audience, and the lame attempts to pass locations few hours of drive away from Los Angeles as alien worlds only make this film look cheaper than usual. Production design is even less impressive and costumes are laughable. The only nice thing in CROSSWORLDS is look of Andrea Roth, which only underlines some sad facts about her much better known colleagues like Rutger Hauer and Stuart Wilson - people who deserved much better fate than having to earn their living in uninspired pieces of genre cinema like this one.
RATING: 2/10 (-)
Review written on November 7th 2003
Dragan Antulov a.k.a. Drax http://film.purger.com - Filmske recenzije na hrvatskom/Movie Reviews in Croatian http://www.ofcs.org - Online Films Critics Society
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