Border Cross

Movie was just ok!!

Great story...fast pace...good ending. I recommend highly!!!

If wanting to watch Lorenzo Lamas in b movie cheese is wrong, then I refuse to be right. BorderCross is a strange one, with a narrative that starts off focused on a high stakes boxing match, then shifts gears into a low rent action flick about father/son bonding and human trafficking. The story doesn’t make much sense, but it does offer up some wooden performances, awkward interactions, and inexplicable plot movements, so while some might scoff at this one, I had fun with BorderCross and if nothing else, it was never dull. The action scenes are small scale, with some light martial arts that have to be seen to be believed. The fights are in slow motion, but not in the usual sense, as the combat just crawls at a snail’s pace and almost seems like a parody of action movies, though I doubt it was meant to. In any event, I loved the fight scenes and there’s some gun play as well, including a scene where Lamas shoots a man through a car door, with no damage to the door whatsoever. Mix in some odd dialogue with those wooden performances and general b movie vibes, then you have a fun, wacky movie that is somehow always dead serious. I had a good time with BorderCross and for fans of b movies, it earns an easy recommendation. Visit my site for a full review!

Danny Jackson (Lorenzo Lamas) is a fighter down on his luck fighting an exhibition match. He checks into a local motel. The clerk is a fan, but doesn't recognize him, even when he signs his name. His son (Connor Pryce), training to be a boxer, gets kidnapped for the child sex slave market. Danny Trejo has a minor role as the "Huggy Bear" bar owner informer. Jackson and his side kick fight to get his son back.Lozenzo does not go Liam Neeson or Walking Tall as much as I would have liked. The fighting is a bit watered down but it is there. The title comes from the fact they cross a border and there is a cross there as Danny gets his faith back. Slightly pun-ish. They slip in a come to Jesus moment at the end, although the "J" word is carefully omitted.Guide: Use of "S" word. Otherwise no swearing, sex, or nudity.