Crash review

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2013)

Reviewing the movie Crash is quite a task because it's a complex movie about racism and conflicts. The name Crash is really fitting for this movie because in the movie as Don Cheadles character says "We crash into each other, just so we can feel something,". Now this is where the racism and stereotypes come in, there are conflicts everywhere in this movie and everyone collides into each other and this is done in a good way. The cast of the movie is very big, and i mean very big about 10 important people and 20 half important people and the movie is roughly 1 hour and 40 minutes long, and the cast is great. The only problem is that it's to big. The only movie that could ever handle a cast that size is lord of the rings and that movie had about 9 hours to develop their characters. So you end up not caring about most of the characters, for example when Sandra Bullocks character says to her maid that she is her best friend I felt nothing but when Terence Howard's character attacks the police I did feel something because he is the only one i cared for and Terence Howard definitely stole the show. Terence character is a successful man in the movie business and then he gets pulled over and Matt Dillon's character molests his wife while he does nothing, they argue and he goes to work and faces racism there to. Finally he confronts 3 police officers and one of them is Ryan Phillippe's character (he was there when the molesting accrued) and he tells the other two officers that it's OK and he is a friend of his, this scene is perfect and feels somewhat real, you really end up caring about what happens here. In the final scenes of the movie some people get their redemption like Terence character and after all that Ryan Philippe has done he accidentally kills a black man because the thought that he was pulling out a gun, that scene is very powerful and is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Some people end up good and get their redemption and some people become what they fought against. In conclusion the movie is decent but not Oscar worthy. The racism is badly portrayed and comes off feeling unreal but in some scenes it's done perfectly. Every second in this movie it felt like i was spoon feed about racism for instance Ludicrous character is a robber, but wait are all black people bad? No Terence is a good guy and he is black, the racism in this movie felt like a joke it's so fake i just can't get over it but sometimes they get it right for example when the social worker says her name is Shaniqua, Dillon's character says "big f*****g surprise there", i thought bullseye that is real racism and that feels so real and you really think wow this really does happened to some people, racism is subtle and getting that in a movie is not an easy task but if you are gonna do it then do it right. Finally the cast was great but to big if they had less characters they could have made a much better movie and overall i think you should see this movie but don't expect to learn anything about racism just watch it as a drama movie with some flaws.