High-octane drama set in crash-crazy City of Angels

Rating: 5/10 (5 March 2006)

This film attempts to visually depict what is normally spoken in hushed tones or whispered behind closed doors. In doing so, it uses expletives to the hilt and shoves the R-word down your throat until you choke.
Is that just bad screenplay or poor direction? Perhaps a bit of both as we try to connect all the dots in this puzzling piece. The events in a day on the streets of LA, where a corrupt cop deliberately pulls over and 'whisks' the wrong party, a couple of carjackers steal a Navigator and bump a Chinese pedestrian (but are not caught or pulled over) and a locksmith finishes a couple of door jobs but is unable to fix the real problems behind them, try to build a complex mosaic of activity in this beehive of Corrupt Angels (as per the film-makers).
But the film lacks a uniform voice not so much because the backgrounds or beliefs of the individual characters are radically different. Rather it does not convincingly portray why all these elements happen to be in a particular 'crash scene' at a given moment in time. Mere coincidence? Well, thats left to subjective interpretation. What good is complexity for the sake of complexity? To win awards maybe but not much else.
Nonetheless, its good for one sitting if one can patiently put together all the footprints and tracks into a cohesive whole.