What movie were you people watching???

Rating: 3/10 (4 May 2005)

I normally don't write comments, but after reading the admiration of this film, I was shocked enough to write this review. Crash was a huge disappointment in my eyes. I really like Million Dollar Baby, and seeing how great the cast was, I was expecting a good piece of film. Afterwards my head hurt from the amount of times that the script pounded it's message into my head. I get it, everyone is a little bit racist, even if they don't admit to it. A fine message, but how many times do you have to tell the audience. Every new character that was introduced, I thought to myself, I wonder how this character will be racist. Now, to give the movie some credit, the acting was quite good and some of the scenes by themselves, were pretty entertaining. But on a whole, it was pure drivel. I sat at the Newport Beach film festival cringing for the filmmakers who had been there. And the worst part about it, was the film could have been good. Even with copying Short Cuts and Magnolia. In Short Cuts you had the earthquake that united all the stories, in Magnolia, it was the frogs, and in Crash, it was the snow. It could have been much better, if they took out 2-3 of the story lines, there was just way too much going on, which didn't allow you to connect to most of the characters, even though I really really wanted to. Do not see this movie. Do not waste your time. As for the rest of the reviewers who loved this film, a message is a good thing to have in a film, but there has to be more and you should be ashamed for allowing yourself to be so manipulated by this garbage film.