Slightly incomplete but pretty good

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2010)

Crash is not a great movie, but it is pretty good (sometimes very). The problem when you think about it is obvious, it is too short. The scenario gives us a large and varied handful of people, perhaps too many to fit into a one hundred minute story. As a result, Crash feels a little underdeveloped, and pretty contrived. Despite that, the drama is solid, the acting is superb, and the movie's intentions are noble. Probably a film worth seeing.
Set up a little like Pulp Fiction, with shorter scenes, Crash intertwines the lives of various people living in the darker parts of Los Angeles. Among them: a racist but dedicated cop, a middle eastern shop keeper on the verge of bankruptcy, a pair of street thieves, and a young couple going through marriage trouble, after receiving police abuse one night.
Crash is not a movie to fall in love with, but it is a respectable motion picture that is able to make do with what it has.