The Top 10 Highest-Profile Straight-to-DVD Releases
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
3. Bordertown
The Big Losers: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas
Deservedly Dumped?: Will J.Lo ever find her Monster's Ball? Not that you can blame her for taking on the demanding role of an American journalist covering the unsolved murders of female workers living in a Mexican border town—especially as she’s reunited with her director Gregory Nava. But she fails to convince us that her newspaperwoman possesses enough smarts to report an accident, let alone the news. Under Nava’s heavy hand, Bordertown suffers from a crippling identity crisis. Is it an investigative piece about the rich exploiting the poor? A political thriller of the kind Sidney Lumet once made? A telenovela obsessed with Lopez’ flirtatious behavior with editor Banderas and the other hunks she meets on the job? There’s a powerful film to be made about these murders. Shame Bordertown isn’t it.
Stars: 2