It wasn't unreasonable to hope for a silly, shallow film with exciting basketball, jammin' music and electricity in the air.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Even though the plot forgoes the formulaic slam-dunk, hackneyed devices, low production values, and the stilted direction (by Preston A. Whitmore II) dribble the ball off the shoe and out of bounds.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

The movie is also burdened by some amateurish acting in supporting roles, but Mackie and Jonathan are the real deal, and they get good support from Wayne Brady as a smarmy sports agent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A real air ball, so poorly scripted that most of the major plot developments occur offscreen.

| Dec 26, 2006

If BET made after school specials, this is what they would look like.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 29, 2006

Writer-director Preston Whitmore II's basketball film is a well-intentioned but utterly clichd slice of Detroit life.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2006

There are dumb movies and then there is Crossover, a movie so devoid of logic it will leave you astounded.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2006

The streetball scenes, much like the plot, have a few high points but never hit their stride.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2006

The inspirational sports movie cliches notwithstanding, Crossover is just bad filmmaking that does not serve either its cast or its audience well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2006

Here's a story that wanders all over the place with an ending that just about anybody could predict.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 8, 2006

The beginning of Crossover looks like a mash-up of McG's Fastlane and Wayne Brady's storied appearance on Chappelle's Show.

| Sep 7, 2006

I hated this movie. It's a piece of junk.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2006

The movie looks as though it was edited in a Cuisinart, more concerned with frenetic cutting than coherent storytelling.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2006

Crossover's got game, not to mention the best of intentions. But it's too clunky by half.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2006

An end-of-summer throwaway that resembles last year's Supercross in its naked ineptitude and willingness to cut corners at every turn.

| Original Score: D | Sep 2, 2006

Much as they would like it to, basketball can't save the youthful inner-city players here. Nor does the ultra-fast-paced street version of the sport save this movie from predictability and tedium.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

The Annapolis of basketball movies... The movie bounces from scene to scene like some sort of round rubbery sphere.

| Sep 1, 2006

What is most surprising, however, is just how bad the basketball in the movie is. The games bookending the picture are two of the worst cinematic interpretations of the sport ever to grace the silver screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Just a few more tweaks and Crossover could have been something special -- a truly terrible movie to savor for the ages. But nooo, this street ball movie has to settle for middle-of-the-road badness.

| Sep 1, 2006

Detroit-born independent filmmaker Preston A. Whitmore II's astonishingly inept drama revolves around the high-stakes world of streetball and the efforts of two teenagers to resist its flash and cash temptations.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006