Superficial, stereotypical, clumsy

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2008)

It is alarming how naive and dull 'Crash' tries to depict and handle a topic that can hardly be more uninspired: socio-economic and interpersonal problems of Afro-American and white people. Blah.
This film totally fails to evoke any emotional response, to create suspense or any given attribute that is needed to arouse the recipients curiosity. The people involved in and artistically responsible for this project tick off all known clichés and stereotypical descriptions to finally construe a completely unrealistic, superficial and simply inadequate cinematic representation of race discrimination problems.
Some people obviously draw parallels to works of Inarritu (Amores perros, 21 grams, Babel). This is absolutely inappropriate. There is only one common denominator, namely the discontinuous episodic structure, but 'Crash' uses this device in such a clumsy way that there is no effect at all. But hey, very hip to opt for it!
Inarritu's movies are artistically sophisticated, intellectually demanding and highly sensitive analyses of contemporary life. There can't be any deeper connection to this Hollywood 'crash'.
Fortunately, this one didn't receive any awards except those three Oscars. This must be some trash movie award no one is interested in.