T V Movie of the Week

Rating: 1/10 (11 March 2006)

Crash is one of the most simplistic movies ever made about the complicated state of race relations in America. Bravely taking on a difficult topic, the movie resorts to banal clichés and bad writing to make its point that, yes, all of us are racist at some point. The movie is a waste of some wonderful performances, especially by Terence Howard, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, and even Sandra Bullock, who probably has never been mentioned in a sentence with the term "good acting" before. Ryan Phillipe, too, shows that if given the right material, he can truly perform. All in all, the motives here may have been good, but the delivery is terrible.