SO BAD I had to add a comment

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2007)

If you want to see a thought-provoking movie about racism that challenges your assumptions about yourself, DON'T SEE CRASH! American History X, Do The Right Thing, In The Heat Of The Night -- these are 3 movies I can think of just off the top of my head that perform this task way better than Crash does. Rent them instead! They make Crash look like the messy wreck it is. I can't even begin to enumerate the clichés in this movie. So many other authors in this forum have done a sufficient job. I'm just adding this comment so that I can up the number of "Hated It" comments. My hope is that anyone who goes by IMDb reviews in their decision to view movies, will see how many people disliked the film (in addition to the puzzling number who liked it) and think twice before wasting their time with Crash. My husband and I sat down in our home to watch this movie and he walked away 10 minutes after the movie started, disgusted by its pretentiousness and poor writing. I kept watching it because I'm a teacher and wanted to be able to discuss the film with my students in the broader context of how pop culture deals with racism. I ended up having to force myself to finish it. My only consolation is that now I can better advise my students that there are way better films out there to watch than this derivative piece of drivel.