Do the Right Thing, this ain't

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2006)

This movie has a good message: Don't be racist. But stop with the fawning already. This movie is worse than awful. It's awful disguised as deep and meaningful.
There is ZERO character development. Every character is either a racist or victimized by a racist. Or both. See how racist everybody is. That's bad, right?
The same point could have been made by developing just one of these story lines into something intelligent. But, no, we need umpteen story lines involving separate incidents of Rodney-King-level racial injustice, happening over no more than a few days, among a small handful of characters. And if that's not ridiculous enough, these characters cross paths all the while.
I know, I know -it's a movie. Okay, then, In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier's Story, Driving Miss Daisy, American History X, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever, Do the Right Thing, and the episode of Star Trek with the half-black/half-white faces are all infinitely better efforts delivering the same message without clubbing you in the head and force feeding you morality.
Crash ?? Crap.