Amazingly superficial.

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2006)

I rented "Crash" based on it's rather high IMDb rating. How bad could it be I thought? Instantly I realized my mistake hearing the superficial racist tone of the gun shop owner in the opening scene. The story that followed was a series of soap opera vignettes that I found equally biased and irritating. It is insulting to watch.
References to learning to be black from the Cosby Show and other modern but transitory cultural references always cheapen a script. Enough bad language thrown in to add "reality", again and again required a non-stop script to find the nastiest racial line possible for every interaction. I won't give an example, the film is rife with them. I don't think like that or talk like that, but believe my simple intellectual understanding of the world rises well above that of the actors, writers and filmmaker in this annoying piece of garbage.
Is there a lesson to be learned from this film? Are we to view the presented futility of our racial biases and learn to live in harmony? I think not. I can learn more about racial profiling from TV news without torturing myself with crappy dialog. The only lesson of this film is that well known Hollywood actors sell their souls for a pay check.