"Crash" Can Put On Weight

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2005)

I saw it yesterday. The one hour forty minutes felt like four hours. It's darker than film noir but still interesting. In fact it's important too but should be seen as a TV docudrama instead of allowing viewers to be victims of a nine buck ripoff.
"Crash" means collisions of cultures in the USA and as non-stop legal and illegal emigration continues, coupled to white and black cultures, we're in for lots of crashes. In fact our entire society as a whole,might crash. But it's what America's all about-being a melting pot but the pot seems to be boiling over as this film indicates.
The acting by Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock and Matt Dillon is fine indeed but still easily forgotten. The conflicts plead a basic fact to all of us Americans and it's "learn to live in a multi-cultured society--learn to tolerate or leave because this nation has changed forever." And so if you're inclined to see this film, be prepared to experience an unsettling 1:40. You're going to leave the theater-DEPRESSED and what will help is a great big banana split.