lack of narrative subtlety prohibits Crash being a truly great film

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2007)

Its lack of narrative subtlety prohibits Crash being a truly great film; there are great performances and breathtakingly captured scenes, however, the scriptwriter's immense confidence, in an admittedly clever concept (however crudely executed), appears to be to blame for the contrived feeling of the resulting film.
The over simplistic narrative unnecessarily highlights the intentions of the filmmakers and makes it feel like a medium for crudely constructed and (somewhat paradoxically) vague ideology making it hard to focus on the story rather than the story telling. Crash is based on a challenging concept that was sadly underdeveloped (resulting in a slightly heavy-handed and a clichéd script) but otherwise very well made.