The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on their feet, and the court is alive with fast-paced razzle-dazzle basketball. These players don't play for a school or a pro team. They play for the street and it's underground...way underground.
Just a few more tweaks and Crossover could have been something special -- a truly terrible movie to savor for the ages. But nooo, this street ball movie has to settle for middle-of-the-road badness.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Sep 2006
rotten:
Much as they would like it to, basketball can't save the youthful inner-city players here. Nor does the ultra-fast-paced street version of the sport save this movie from predictability and tedium.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
1 Sep 2006
rotten:
An end-of-summer throwaway that resembles last year's Supercross in its naked ineptitude and willingness to cut corners at every turn.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
2 Sep 2006
rotten:
I hated this movie. It's a piece of junk.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
5 Sep 2006
rotten:
A real air ball, so poorly scripted that most of the major plot developments occur offscreen.