DALLAS, Apr 25, 2004/ FW/ --- If Top Gun is the best Navy recruiting movie, then Beyond Borders is the best movie depicting global hunger and the plight of displaced people due to war or any other reason.

But if you are expecting an epic like Gone With the Wind that depicts world political turmoil, you will be disappointed. Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen did more than a credible performance. In fact, their acting was great. But even great actors can suffer from a bad storytelling and no matter how credible their performance were, the story falls short of expectations.

It’s a story that spanned 15 years, starting during the 1980s when Sarah (Angelina Jolie) was a young American socialite who just got married to one of Britain’s most eligible bachelor, as is rich, young and good looking.

Enter Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), a passionate British doctor who is a relief worker in Ethiopia. Sarah hears his plea for help and goes to Africa with supplies bought with her own money. Sarah gets exposed to world hunger.

Fast-forward 5 years, and Sarah now works for the U.N., while Nick is now in Cambodia. Sarah goes to Cambodia as a UN worker, and her repressed feelings for Nick comes back. And they find out that they are in love with each other.

So it becomes a love story ‘beyond borders’ as Sarah goes back to London and Nick continues his relief work. And this is where the story begins to falter, and the epic story of “Gone With the Wind” comes to mind on how Rhett and Scarlett’s love story became part and parcel of the south during the civil war.

Sarah and Nick’s love story seemed like an add-on, just to keep the audience interested. And though there obviously were sacrifices that the lovers did, it was not shown nor expounded in the film to make it believable.

In short, this is a good movie to rent at Blockbuster if you want to learn more about world hunger, and good movie to buy if you are big fan of Angelina Jolie so that you can have a complete set of her movies, plus she was really good in her acting here.

As for costume design, the fashion depicted from the 1980s to 1990s are the correct ones, with Angelina Jolie’s hair changing from the short bob and bangs of the 1980s to the longer and freer look of the 1990s.