Overbaked, unworthy, low credibility

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2010)

This film shows the way Hollywood film makers perceive race relations... as opposed to reality.
The interconnection between the characters was too overplayed. Robert Altman was clever at "brushing" the characters against each other through the plot without forcing it and stretching credibility. However, Crash manages to create the intersection of characters with idiotic plotting painted with apparent randomness.
As for the subject matter of the film, Morgan Freeman (and many others) have said that race would not be so much of an issue if we all just stopped talking about it and focusing on it. He's right. This film, like most of the national media, wallows in the Cochranian maxim: race plays a part of everything in America.
Needless to say that much of the racism in this film is incredibly contrived and relies upon prejudices in itself. After all, everyone knows that all white LA cops are racist, right? Film making itself was quite solid and the performances were good. Not worthy of an Oscar nomination for best film, let alone winning it. Goes to show that the unfounded and incorrect perceptions about every day Americans extends beyond the makers of this film and ripples throughout the Hollywood industry. Amazing what they can come up with when surrounded by "yes" men in their mansions on Mullholland Drv.