I had no expectations for this movie, except that I quite like Clive Owen and I found the subject of the movie, the realities behind famine relief, quite illuminating. The movie had several flaws, as illustrated by other commentators, not least the last scenes when Jolie leaves her young children to enter dangerous territory to look for her lover. It took away from the rest of the movie. One really petty thing for me was the fact that all the scenes supposedly set in London were obviously not - I thought they were in Eastern US, but was not surprised at the end to find they were in Montreal. The houses were so not English it was sad - why spend all this money and then pretend to set the family home scenes in London and elsewhere in England when the houses were obviously North American Style.The acting was fine, it was the storyline that let it down. Still, if it makes one person more aware of the realities of the political aspects of world famine, then it will not have been a total waste.
Review of Beyond Borders
