Pretentious, preachy and intellectually immature

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2006)

From the stupid "angelical" new age soundtrack, to the excess of slow motion and situations "to make you think" and "to make you cry", this movie is so pretentious, pathetically preachy, and intellectually immature that I don't want to waste my time analyzing it. But just to fill the ten lines required, I would say that in "Crash", Paul Haggis, writer and director, teach us about racial misunderstanding and wrong human behaviors based on prejudice. The story is about a multiracial group of extremely stereotypical characters passing each other in the night, to predictably meet later at the end in a melodramatic finale. Only in Hollywood (only in the US) it could have happened that such a mediocre movie gets not only good reviews but even an Oscar for Best Motion Picture of the year. As a person who loves cinema and who specially loves American cinema, I want to say that just the fact that the critics took this movie seriously makes me feel sad.