Amazon.co.uk Review
Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker look-a-like in
Crossworlds, a
Star Wars meets
A Wrinkle in Time adventure of an intergalactic war and one unassuming young man who holds the key to dimensional travel. Charles plays a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson to settle the fate of the universe. This obviously low-budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings--notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind game hanging in space and a knock-down, drag-out finale that sends our hapless hero popping up all over the universe. Hauer makes for a surprisingly charismatic mercenary turned father figure and Charles is modestly charming, once he stops the wisecracks. Though it reaches for a scope that's beyond its means,
Crossworlds is an entertaining bit of sci-fi fluff. --
Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com