highly overrated by critics

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2006)

After reading some reviews on here, I see a lot of people didn't think much of this movie like me. It was movie critics that kept saying it was good. And the fact this won the Oscar for best picture, yet Saving Private Ryan did not, is a monumental wrong doing. This movie was not very good and certainly did not deserve any award nominations. Sure, it is about an important societal issue, racism. But that doesn't mean every movie about racism is good.
This was like a hodge podge of several characters and their stories thrown together and at the end some of the characters overlap stories. We have 2 cops who detain a couple and one cop more or less molests the woman. Later, he saves her life and the other cop has a run in with her husband. We have 2 car jackers, later one runs into the other lady's husband and the other runs into the cop. It turns out he is the brother of another cop that was featured. Another story involves an Arab store owner who goes after a guy who only fixed the lock to his store. His daughter is a dr. who is scene later at the hospital.
Then Sandra Bullock plays this whiny, rich b*tch who I could not stand. She didn't deserve any friends.
FINAL VERDICT: Not very good. Not much happens. And definitely not one of the better movies of 2005.