Tried a little too hard to be cute

Rating: 5/10 (16 September 2006)

The movie was entertaining, and for that is a watchable movie. However, Crash definitely didn't deserve an Oscar nomination. The movie was too politically correct. This movie was politically correct "fantasia". Characters in the movie openly say racist and bigoted things. I don't believe that in L.A. nowadays people talk like in the 1920s. Nobody goes around as openly racist and bigoted as in this movie. There was some good acting. Sandra Bullock I think is highly overrated, but she was good as a crabby, bigoted woman. Matt Dillon was very good. I liked that he was bigoted in one scene, but then rescued the very woman he had alienated. The movie seemed to go along as a passable film until the last few scenes. Ryan Phillippe, for example, played Officer Tom Hansen. He was alienated by his partner John Ryan's (Matt Dillon) behavior when stopping a black couple. He ended up preventing a shooting situation by calming talking an angry black man whom he was familiar with out of waiving his gun around. Then, Officer Ryan is driving home late at night and picks up a total stranger. No one in L.A. picks up strangers at night. Officer Ryan ends up shooting the black youth passenger, because he falsely believes that he is getting a gun out of his jacket. Then, the youth passenger dies and turns out to be Detective Graham Walters' (Don Cheadles) brother. This made no sense, and Don Cheadles had one of his poorest performances. We never found out much about his character to really have much of any opinion about him, and to justify his poor role as an older brother. So, this movie was entertaining, but the movie became more and more implausible.