Cross (2011 Video) User Reviews (67)

Painful to Watch

[gavin6942 · 4/10 · 8 June 2011]

Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic cross, Callan (Brian Austin Green) continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unstoppable empire in Los Angeles.

I want to find the words to describe this film without being disrespectful, but it is just not a good movie. I see the potential, and some moments are better than others, but the film wavers between humor and seriousness with a cacophony of sound and juxtaposition of images that hurts the mind. Some films, notably "The Spirit", have balanced this well. This film has not. Would it make more sense if I had read the comic? Probably. But as a comic fan, I never heard of this one, so I think it is safe to say few people will know what is going on any more than I did. I learned a new word, though: Anzshlastic. Does it mean anything? Probably not.

Seemingly, the movie was made to coincide with the Green Lantern movie. Not that there is any connection, but someone here has a glowing green cross that gives him super powers. Sounds like another hero's ring. Beyond that, no connection, and the plot is a big mess. There is the concept of finding the bloodlines of the Greek gods. For some reason, only one person has the bloodline when you would think all their distant cousins would, too. And there are multiple villains, with little background offered about them.

The dialogue is written for a ten-year old. Sometimes we get decent one-liners (most of which come from Backfire, Jake Busey's character) and there was a good Gary Busey "Point Break" joke. But often we have everything dumbed down. Gunnar (Vinnie Jones) says over and over again that he is immortal and will be the last to die. Yeah, I got it. Did he have to repeat it? No. All this does is take a great actor like Jones and make him look like a fool.

The press release is far from accurate, too. It says "beautiful, young women start disappearing". Young, maybe. Beautiful? Hardly. And what is this about Gunnar being an immortal Viking? That never plays into the plot at all, and he clearly has an English rather than Norse accent. The only thing really going for this film is the cast. Besides those mentioned, we also have Brian Austin Green, Tom Sizemore, Michael Clarke Duncan, Danny Trejo, Lew Temple and C. Thomas Howell. How such a great ensemble ended up in this stinker is beyond me.

Nowhere in the press release or on the DVD cover is there a single quote from a review. Also, it arrived for me to review a week after it was released. This leads me to one conclusion: the people behind this film know it is not good and want to avoid more bad coverage (though, to do that, they should never have sent it at all). Possibly redeeming it is a director's commentary (I have not listened). There are deleted scenes, but those amount to single sentences trimmed from various spots. Why they were cut at all is beyond me. In short, avoid this film like the plague. Besides Jake Busey, it is a failure (and that is a sad thing when Busey is the best part of your film)

Poorly Made Film That I Nevertheless Respect

[amnesiac12001 · 4/10 · 18 February 2012]

This film is a textbook case of "biting off more than you can chew." Which sucks because with a couple million bucks, it could've been something impressive.

The premise is actually promising: mythological-powered heroes sharing the spotlight with action heroes in a comic book universe as they save the world from supernatural threats. There are actually some clever and well-written lines and zingers in the script, and these are the lines usually best delivered. It also manages to not take itself too seriously, which makes it easier to digest. I'd argue that it's a direct descendant of "Adventure of Buckaroo Banzai" which makes it's failure all the more painful.

Unfortunately, the movie tries to do too much with too little. While half the cast is composed of well-known and very talented actors, the other half is composed of stunt men and friends of the director's, and it shows. The budget is woefully small for subject matter of this magnitude, and while there's some spirited camera-work and clever production schemes to compensate, it doesn't quite pull off.

The biggest problem is that the director didn't have what he needed to light it properly. Considering that the budget was likely under $800,000 it could have been anything: not enough lights, not enough money to get additional shooting days, or not enough money to keep the talent on longer than needed, etc. but the limits of the budget really show. The setups are nowhere near as dynamic as they need to be, the lighting is stark and practical, and the set design virtually nonexistent. The setups reminded me of a lot of mid-budget HD porn movies where they shoot the action head-on and in two shots to keep the borders of the set (and the warehouse beyond) out of frame.

The cast is staggeringly impressive; there's some real talent here, and Sizemore, Busey and Jones tend to have the best delivery of some truly underwhelming lines, but even their contributions can't distract from the fact that the film was so rushed that they didn't have time to learn their lines as well as they should. In the commentary, the director admits that Sizemore often had to learn his lines minutes before they shot a scene, so this probably happened more often than not. More than anything, it looks like Hollywood actors doing a favor for a film student and his buddies.

Visually, it looks like a cross between "Repo: The Genetic Opera," "The Batman XXX" parody, and the "Angel of Death" web series with Zoe Bell.

Still, the fact that the director managed to get the film made with the cast he did for the money he had and in LOS ANGELES (at God knows WHAT rates) is nevertheless impressive, and I have to respect him for that. Because the budget was so low, it's hard to tell how much of the film's failure is due to ineptitude or finance, so I'm not going to write off the filmmakers just yet. With more money and a larger crew, he might actually have done this (or the sequel) right.

It falls short of the "Buckaroo Banzai" level it wants to be, but its a digital age cult curio nonetheless. Perhaps not one of the best, but no less worthy of consideration.

This deserves a miss.

[gkey63 · 2/10 · 22 May 2011]

For employing some great names in Vinnie Jones and Ving Rhames, you have to wonder if they are embarrassed for the final product that comes out in this altogether bad, as in poorly constructed, film. It is like the actors were thrown together with a partial script and told to ad-lib their scenes. There was no flow, it was extremely boring and the dialogue was terrible. They forgot to edit this movie to try and make something interesting. I really tried to find something positive in this film but couldn't. It is just plain bad and for those actors that should be embarrassed, move on.... bad direction, bad script and bad editing meant this was doomed from the beginning. Awful.

Dire warning. Literally dire. Warning

[reece_is · 1/10 · 31 May 2011]

I cannot work out if this film is that bad deliberately or worse that they didn't realise. The acting was beyond cheese, even rank stifling cheese. Not one member of the cast stood out as anything other than awful, wooden, reluctant and hardly present.

Maybe I'm being harsh, perhaps they did everything they could with a script that I'm pretty sure was written by a couple of 12 year old kids blitzed out in a comic book euphoric haze.

The score was bland and occasionally misplaced enough break what little concentration it took to focus on the film. If there was any directing I must have missed it, perhaps it took place after the credits. Special effects were special only in the way they managed to get some out of about a dollar ninety five and I'm sorry to say they didn't even get value for money.

I've tried and tried, for about 15 seconds, to think of any redeeming feature or angle to this film. I failed. Kind of suits the film really.....

About on par with C-Grade made for TV shows

[damian5000 · 3 August 2011]

I felt a lot of heart went into making this movie, but it just doesn't make the grade.

Cheesy one liners, though delivered well and fit the spirit of the movie well, still end up being cheesy one-liners.

Special effects were worse than what you would see in an episode of a Sci-Fi Channel original or TV episode like Stargate.

The only thing that got this movie beyond TV was the mid level, mostly washed up actors, who have been popular in the past, or were in good movies at one point in their careers.

Regarding Danny Trejo at the top of the Bill, he shows up for literally less than 20 seconds, and wasn't even part of the movie from what I could tell.

Names like Shark,Ranger,War,Riot,and Backfire make me think they did everything they could do put the movie at C or worse. It's like they didn't even make a pretension of trying to be better than that. Almost like they all got together and said "let's make a really good D-movie, and let's work really hard to make it that way!"

Anyways, to sum it up...The heart and hard work was there, and the acting mostly decent, but I feel with the cast and the story line it could of been better...Maybe even end up something of a cult flick, but it doesn't quite get there.

Bad movie

[balhau · 1/10 · 5 July 2011]

The sound is bad. The soundtrack is not pleasant don't fit with the movie. The acting is also awful. The storyline is a bad joke. The action part is very poor and there is no interesting points in the whole movie. In my opinion this is one of the baddest movies ever. Don't loose your time with this piece of trash. You'll wait until the end to say: Well this is it? The single good part in this movie is the end. Even the girls seemed to be taken from a porn movie. No expression no feelings. Nothing. Heaven this is outrageous. I just hope don't get a psychological problem as a bad consequence of this movie from hell.. I hope this director stop using drugs.

Brian Austin Green's Early Man-opause

[skillionaire · 1/10 · 24 May 2011]

Wow, all I can say is wow. A decent review on another site lead me to try this movie, and I'd like to find that reviewer and hit him with a bag of telephones. This inept attempt at entertainment couldn't pass for a film school project, much less some serious action/comic book adaption. Brian Austin Green produces and stars in this ridiculously slapdash pile of ego ridden dreck. If I had to guess, Green dictated the storyboarding because the cinematography seems like something a child would do, low angle shots, bad lighting and staging reminiscent of more dramatically acted work, you can really tell he thinks people will adore this for the simple fact women once threw themselves at him. Which brings me to the ego portion of the review. Apparently Green still somehow has to funds to create such a project simply to rent cars for his character to drive and get laid. I mean nothing central to the story involves the decadent treatment of Green's character, you literally don't feel any sense of authenticity or reality throughout the entire movie. This "film" is a disaster. Its badly designed; introducing what must be the entire comic book cast in the first 10 minutes. Thats 20+ people with stupid analogies for names and personality quirks which never come to fruition in the film, many expositional points are blatantly ignored and forgotten. Nothing is developed, the plot, if you want to call it that, is a character driven set of showdowns where you don't know or particularly care who's shooting who. But take note, Green's hair is always in focus. The dialog seemed sarcastic, but as you get 15 mins into this piece, you realize they are trying to be serious; its almost embarrassing. Do not watch this film, it is of far less redeeming value than the worst You-Tube fan fiction or web-made show. At least those low-budget, low- effort projects respect you as a viewer, this "film" does not.

Huge disappointment

[ansarm · 1/10 · 2 June 2011]

I give it one star because of the huge disappointment it is. Nice cast, OK story. The direction and editing is just awful. Add to it the really primitive special effects. I had a feeling I was watching a 1990's SciFi channel production. To top it wall C Thomas Howell the king of rip-off B movies has a bit role. And it has big name bad guys and the younger Busey in it. It must have had some financing, they just blew it or were forced to work on a shoe-string budget. Lesson learnt, once again, don't see a movie for the cast. And it has some good reviews here. Who wrote them? It is mind boggling how someone can like it. On the contrary it is unintentionally funny at quite a few points. Unless u have time to kill, spare yourself the aggravation of watching this.

I actually wasted part of my life watching this, but I was bored.

[bugsico · 1/10 · 22 May 2011]

Let's face it folks, Vinnie Jones is no actor, although he's being paid quite a lot of money for having no talent in this area. He could be a worthy critic though, as several times in this film he uses a word which could well describe this effort - "Pathetic". That's about it really. There are several attempts at comic book emulation, and a minor love interest, along with a little childish humour. It would be OK for children's' television if it were not for the occasional "F word", but frankly, it's going nowhere, despite the ending which seems to encourage the viewer to expect to suffer a sequel. I really do hope not!

What a shameful waste of talent!

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 18 January 2013]

I did think Cross had potential to be a watchable movie. The cast on paper are reason enough to make that so. But in the end Cross was a terrible movie with equally terrible execution. You'd think with a cast as good as this that they'd be solid at least, but watching it until the end(yes somehow I managed to see the whole thing) my biggest gripe of many was "talk about wasted talent". Brian Austin Green is decent, and Michael Clarke Duncan is a believable crime boss. Compared to the rest of the cast though, who were dire overall to put it politely, their performances are not enough to save it sadly. But they are not entirely to blame as they did deserve much better than this.

The worst case was Vinnie Jones, who I didn't buy for one second whatsoever as an immortal god and it looks as though he forgot his acting skills(which admittedly were limited to begin with). Either Tom Sizemore was drunk or ill because not only did he give the impression he was reading from a cue card he looked and sounded awful throughout. Thomas C.Howell- no stranger to bad movies himself actually- is underused, Jake Busey is out of place with one-liners that were ridiculously over-the-top and had no point being there and Danny Trejo's role was so brief that you actually question was he in this movie at all.

But it wasn't just the acting that made Cross such a painful missed opportunity. The story also deserves a large part of the blame. It's often ridiculous(too much to try to suspend any kind of disbelief), under-develops any plot strands and the characters and ends up predictable and confused. It also doesn't seem to know what it wanted to be or who to aim at. Too violent to appeal to a younger audience and too dumbed down for an adult. To make it more even and such, I think they should have left in the action parts, yet they should have been much edgier as everything felt too sloppy, but cut out or at least matured the humour.

As said, the script is too dumb and cheesy to take remotely seriously, Jones' dialogue was also irritatingly repetitive. I did get that vibe that it wasn't supposed to be, but later on I got another that indicated that it was trying to be the exact opposite. The music score is bland and doesn't fit the movie, the action is sloppily choreographed and executed and pacing-wise there doesn't seem to be any kind of life sometimes. Along with the acting and the story, the production values was also a huge problem. Cross actually looks as though it was edited on a bacon slicer and to say the special effects are bad is an understatement. I think Cross could have easily done without the effects, but even then I don't think it'd stop the movie from being as bas as it was.

Overall, a terribly executed movie that shamefully wastes its cast. If I were to be honest, I found reading the increasingly ignorant positive reviews much more entertaining. By all means, go ahead and like the movie, I'm not going to judge or stop you, but at least learn the difference between fact and opinion before attacking those who on the most part have legitimate reasons for hating Cross. 1/10 for Green and Duncan. Bethany Cox

Boring and senseless movie

[sauravjoshi85 · 1/10 · 20 July 2019]

Cross is a Fantasy action movie directed by Patrick Durham and starring Brain Austin Green, Jake Busey, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tom Sizemore and Vinnie Jones to name a few.

The film suffers from a good story and plot and it seems that the director had read some comic book and made a movie out of it. The acting was ok, direction was bad, screenplay is bad and is not gripping.

A bad and boring movie.

Not Your Typical Action Movie

[zlebmicron · 10/10 · 4 August 2011]

I'm not a real fan of action adventure movies. However, I'll make an exception for this one. It rather stirred my soul a bit. Especially since it didn't come across as being strictly serious. I found this surprisingly but pleasantly exceptional. It nearly reminded me of one of my favorite all time films. I'm talking of course of, "Escape from LA". Since you're probably wondering why I'm singling out that film, allow me to digress. One: Kurt Russell and Peter Fonda surfing a tsunami. Two: when Kurt Russell was beset in a medical ward by The Surgeon General of Beverly Hills. The anticipation of extracting blood from innocent females in Cross and Robert Carradine's crazy Doctor persona was similar in attitude and presentation.

So after having avoided like the plague any kind of film who's previews include the same... You know: explosions, the tough guy goes after the bad guy, tough guy and nice girl fall in love, more explosions, tough guy kills bad guy, etc…..I can now find a movie like Cross that for the first time in 15 years, I can thoroughly enjoy.

Is This Film Being Trolled By Hate Boys?

[verbusen · 6/10 · 24 October 2014]

Luckily I watched this before looking up the rating on IMDb and being jaded or even avoiding it. This film scores in the low 3's, almost in the 2's? Seriously? That is the realm of Paris Hilton films! My only conclusion is that people are watching this not knowing it's a straight to video flick and expecting something that I have no idea what. Compare this to the same type stuff shown on the Sci Fi channel, it blows it away! I'm giving it a 6 because I was entertained. I liked the cast, especially Busey, he's the reason why I looked up the film but I did notice there were several other action B movie stars here. I even watched a probably heavily edited version that showed on Arab TV and I was still entertained. Cool low budget action flick with a very agreeable cast. I liked it, not sure where all the hate is coming from and what it is being compared to to rate it a 3. Just haters? I'm giving it a 6 of 10 for a lightweight action/ sci fi/ fantasy flick. Entertained me and is date friendly as well.

Destroyed my night

[markus_isteri · 1/10 · 31 October 2011]

oh my god, how is it possible to make such an terrible movie. there wasn't a thing in the entire movie that was good, i sat an watch through it all just to see if they had done something right. there are 2 things i especially disliked. 1: the camera work, the way they were filming was annoying and just made it even more clear what a big amateur movie it was. 2: the guy that ran around with the ball, i mean in a movie with terrible actors he out shined them all in being a terrible actor. This movie is honestly the worst movie I seen. i've seen adult movies with better actors! catastrophe, ridiciculous, ombelivlible ,sucks. silly: cross

Popcorn time!

[Film_at_24 · 28 July 2011]

History, Mythology and old-style comic books! They all meet up in a film that sends you back to the feeling of past of serialized films. It's a story of good and evil with a bit of irreverence (and exploding balls!) that's meant to be fun! If you're looking for gun, explosions and jokes that poke fun at the genre, look no further. Oh... and... Michael Clarke Duncan!!! Who doesn't love Michael Clarke Duncan!!?? Then, add Danny Trejo and let the action begin! If you're expecting a deadly serious film with a lot of social comment, you'll be better off somewhere else. If you're looking for a fun night with popcorn, check out Cross.

Incredibly bad

[grantss · 1/10 · 18 August 2020]

Craptacular. Didn't set my expectations very high and it was still worse than I anticipated! Expected B-grade, got Z-grade.

Silly plot; dreadful dialogue; weak direction; atrocious, hammy acting.

Avoid like the plague.

Had potential, lots of it, but they screwed it up...

[destroyerwod · 5/10 · 9 June 2013]

First I'm sorry cause this is gonna be a spoiler review, i hate doing spoilers review and usually avoid them, but to make you really understand the problems of this movie i have to.

Brian Austin Green is Callan AKA Cross, because he wear a green glowing cross on his chest that allows him to deflect bullets and force push his adversary...(nop, he does not have a lightsaber tough) The idea is cool, yet you see him do that is maybe 2 scenes before he get his cross stolen for the whole movie, and only take it back at the very end to beat the bad guy...

The rest of his team are a bunch of various weapon experts and in all fairness they could had been interesting, but the problem is the movie waste so much time on useless "build up" scenes where your supposed to fear for the team and all before some gunfights and still fail miserably, or some "character build up" with the love interest but in the end you just don't give a damn. So you end up knowing a bit these guys by there name and all, but there "roles" in the movie are just merely a title and you could easily rename them "henchmen 1, henchmen 2 and so on". They even show a scene where Callan lose the "love of his life" (its really that badly shown) and all you see is her getting hit by a random bullet and this serve NO PURPOSE at all for the whole movie. You get one little argument scene with one of the chick of his team, but thats it, never mentioned again, and yes he still bang another chick after merely pushing her advance for ... 2 secs.

At least they give a little character development to Backfire played by Jake Busey, but he is the only interesting member of the team, all the rest are just there to be there. Shark is supposed to be the hand to hand fighter, yet you see him fight hand to hand really once in his introduction. Ranger is supposed to be the sniper, yet you see him snipe one time only... There is just too much guys for the movie to handle.

Even the villains, they try to portray Michael Clark Duncan's henchmen with a personality but after a few useless scenes where they kill an officer giving them a parking ticket, they become pointless thugs and I'm not even sure if i see them again... can't remember.

There is so much people in this movie for so little action, its crazy. Most of the movie is dialogue and badly written dialogue more or less. The acting is OK, and the cast is surprisingly well known, but the problem is the rest, the general idea of the script was OK, but the screen writing is Awful.

I saw plenty of B movies showing a team of mercenaries or whatever fighting the forces of evil and all, and they even had worst special effects and yet i still got interest because of character development. But like i said, outside Callan which is OK i guest in the role of the hero, all the rest are just useless team members, and in all fairness i could almost not see any difference between the 2 blonde chicks of his team past there introduction. The only noticeable difference i saw was that one was slightly a little more important because she is on the cover and talk a bit to the hero.

You wanna see a team well played, look at the expendables. I know, i know, big budget, but I'm not talking about the budget of the movies, but about how they introduce and make the characters interesting.

Cross is something that could had been pretty good for B fans, but end up as a huge disappointment, especially considering the cast and all, i will say for once I'm in agreement with IMDb's rating for this one, even tough i give it 5, i am a VERY easy to please cinema addict usually, so i can understand the general public give it a 3.

Worst movie i've ever seen !! I'm putting it in my IMDb bottom 100 or better yet bottom 10

[dripple32 · 1/10 · 23 May 2011]

This is without a doubt the worst movie i've ever seen. I've seen some bad movies and some good bad movies this is just bad bad bad.

It lists a cast that made me think this might be entertaining, but its far from it. From the first 2 minutes this movie had me shaking my head in disbelief at how bad it was. It had all the acting skills and dialog of a very bad porn movie. I don't want to seem to harsh but i've seen better acting at a children's 1st grade play and thats the truth! This movie shouldn't even rate a 1 but thats as low as I can mark it.

This is a straight to DVD release if I was you, flip the DVD over and watch snow on the TV its more enjoyable than this rubbish.

A bad movie that is an unintentionally funny entertainment

[helmutty · 5/10 · 30 June 2011]

This has a rating of 3 stars on IMDb. Wow, this does not actually deserve that. I would call this a wasted potential movie. There are many things like a super-powered cross in the movie that could make the movie an enjoyable action flick but no, these things are briefly mentioned and characters jump in and out in the movie. Watching this seems like a watching a group of students with no budget filming a talky movie filled with unintentionally funny acting.

The story: To tell the truth, I have no idea what is it about. The story is nothing. Fine, even if there is no story, I would at least expect action and humour. This movie being in the action genre barely has action and when it comes to the action, it is tepid. I was hardly amused by it. The humour is the whole movie with cast giving out bad performances. And they except the girl playing Sunshine don't even provide eye-candy. I can only comment on Michael Clarke Duncan and Vinnie Jones. Michael's performance is the best in the movie and Vinnie is just trying too hard. Danny Trejo being involved in the movie is priceless, he just appears and says a line in one scene for no reason. The rest of the movie is blah blah. It is actually kind of boring if not for the bad acting.

Overall: This is not one of the worst Direct-To-DVD movie I have seen but it is close. It cannot deliver even one single thing. Bad acting, action and story. It is only mildly entertaining because I actually wanted to laugh at their bad performances. Another thing bad about this movie is that it is long. Yawn. Had they cut out some unnecessary scenes, I think it would be easier to watch.

Not a review

[nlole · 1/10 · 19 May 2011]

Think of this more as a warning. I haven't reviewed a film before, don't get me wrong, I have spent lots of time verbally reviewing films to friends etc and most of the time people do agree with me. There are the odd few films (yes, I prefer the word "Film" to movie) that I have enjoyed that would be considered pretty bad by the majority so I am not without my flaws. I have had moments of bad taste. Anyway, I digress.

Don't see this film. Its bad. Its the worst kind of bad without actually being harmful to your health. Films with low budgets can usually be forgiven, UNLESS they have a cast of actors/actresses that should actually do a better job. Yes we can blame the screenplay and director etc, but really? Did none of the cast involved in this film at some point say "Hold on, this film is a turkey but you know what? Im gonna give it my best shot."

OK. So if you ignore my advice and watch this film then fair play to you. I lasted 10 Min's and skipped through the rest. Hey, life is precious.

A hybrid of "Kick-Ass" and "Scott Pilgrem vs. The World". Not nearly as good as either. Hardcore comic fans will love. I say C+

[cosmo_tiger · 5/10 · 27 May 2011]

If you could live forever would you want to? After given a Celtic Cross with incredible powers Callan (Green) forms a team that battles crime in Los Angeles. When Gunnar (Jones) (a man who can't die) steals the cross in hopes to destroy mankind it is up to Callen and his team to save the world. This movie sounds much cooler then it is. This is a live action comic book type movie complete with the writing during the scenes just like in a comic book. The first half hour or so is really entertaining, then it drags on, and on, and on for another hour before the action packed last 15 minutes. The acting is not the best, but with a former 90210 star at the helm that's not surprising. I would call it a mix between "Kick-Ass" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World", but not as good as either of them. If you are hardcore in to these types of movies you will love this. If, like me, you are a casual watcher of super-hero movies you may not be impressed. Overall pretty entertaining in parts and very, very slow in others. After watching "The Green Hornet" this is a tremendous let down, even though its not really fair to compare the two. I give it a C+.

Would I watch again? - Pretty sure I won't *Also try - Kick-Ass

Garbage

[lovemoviesalways · 1/10 · 1 June 2011]

I watched this movie today. Man was I disappointed. The dialogue is all one liners, the film is lit poorly, shot poorly. Story is confusing. A mess. And it looks like people who the filmmaker knows are putting overly nice comments on IMDb. This is Produced fairly well because good cast. They are all past their prime thought. C,D and a couple B listers. However, the director has no clue. Everyone needs a paycheck I guess but this is a perfect example of producers who think they can direct. Wow. I am really shocked this got made. I love film and I am sad to say this is a fail. At least he tried. Getting a movie made is an accomplishment. This is not a good film through. Makes me wonder where the business is headed.

Could see this catching on..I liked it!!!!

[jessicahildreth232 · 10/10 · 28 May 2011]

I went into this with some fairly low expectations,.and I have to say I was surprised to be completely entertained for the full running time.I saw the cast list and was thinking how did they get this many folks into one indie action flick..They were mostly cameo's but some really cool people spotting was had,..I almost completely missed C Thomas Howell. Anyway you can see a lot of effort to bring a dynamic and a bit on purpose cheesy ,.new take on an original super hero .. it worked.Now don't get me wrong some lame delivery of lines from some of the less known actors are there but for the most part the acting was on point.The flick in no way tries to take itself too serious ,..so remember that when going in,.in fact in the main badguys intro scene you see the bad guys drinking beer and playing poker..pay attention they are playing freakin goldfish...(what?)..yea its a fun flick better and more fun than most indies I've seen. I can easily see more of these made and I think that would be a good thing!

It really is that bad

[rdamian1963 · 1/10 · 21 October 2021]

With a reasonable cast, there should have been something resembling entertainment. However, this movie fails at every level of execution. The script is worse than anything a group of 3rd graders could come up with. The acting is even worse. The action sequences are childish and poorly executed. It doesn't even come close to poorly done amateur films. If you come across this title, simply pass it by .

Insant Classic!!

[rafaelhecgomez · 27 July 2011]

As an indie filmmaker, I know the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into creating a film. After watching "Cross," I have nothing but utmost respect towards this film!! It is an instant classic because it has all the ingredients that a quality film needs: big weapons, clever witty script, sarcastic humor, large explosions, great locations, gorgeous cars, damsels in distress...I could go on and on for ages!! To know that a fellow indie filmmaker was able to gather up all of those amazing stars...I mean amazing!! We are talking roles from Danny Trejo, C.Thomas Howell, and Billy Zabka. We are talking lead roles from The Michael Clark Duncan and Vinnie Jones. Tons more too!! The fact that these actors signed on to this project in the first place is proof that this film is an inspiration to all of us indie filmmakers out there. I say bravo! A job well done on creating this instant classic!!