crash; way overrated!

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2005)

I don't get what is so good about this film; I found it to be unrelentingly unpleasant, to a degree approaching the obtuse. I feel that it is heavy-handed and preachy; the director has something of a holier-than-thou attitude going on! It's not particularly clever or original, and I suspect that, just because it deals with racism so overtly, people are willing to shower it with praise - which it doesn't actually deserve - because it is not PC to trash insightful, provocative (ahem) social commentaries. In addition the characterisation is virtually non-existent; given that there are so many characters, they each do not get very much screen time. The "irony" involving Ryan Phillipe's and Matt Dillon's characters is rather obvious, as well as unrealistically convenient. My final thought on leaving the cinema was "And...your point is what?"