This movie isn't as good as I remember. It kinda crash hard for me. It was just alright.

Rating: 7/10 (10 February 2015)

After rewatching it, I have to say, it's not Best Picture material as people make it out to be. This movie was a hard sit through with its tough loud and brash language and racist overtones. I found it to be very annoying. A self-described "passion piece" for Director Paul Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real-life incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard in 1991 where he saw racism, first handed. The movie tells a fictional story of number of Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives colliding with each other in interweaving stories about race, loss and redemption. I like how the film makes it everybody is tied with each other, but the whole interlocking story device isn't really that innovative when Crash come out. Hyperlink cinema has a long history in Hollywood, and in the right hands, could be clever. Films like 1994's Pulp Fiction, 1999's Magnolia and 2000's Traffic were able to do this, very correctly. Crash interlocking story arch felt clunky and unclear of itself. It doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy or a serious melodrama. The movie has this holier-than-thou attitude that I didn't like, with its story. It's telling the audience that racism is bad in a heavy-handed and preachy way, but yet, the writer for this film, put in funny ethic jokes for the audience to laugh at. They make you laugh at racism joke, and then the film goes all serious, and condemn you for laughing at it, minutes later. The film felt disconnected in that regard. Very hypocritical and very manipulative in the way, the film was edited. Besides that, it's nice to see the filmmakers, showcase, that minorities could also be racists, too. It's nice to see that movie isn't all about 'white guilt'. The film really extremely showcase racism, but fails to bring anything new to the discussion, like how to solve that problem. It seem mostly founded in making the audience feel as guilty as hell or angry for things that they personally didn't do. It is reasons like this movies, that there's still so much racism in society. It's because animosity never goes away. Somebody always trying to stir the pot. We get it, 'racism is bad'. The race card topic is pretty well-worn by 2004. Let racism die down already, Hollywood. Another problem with this film is that it fails to be a story. First off, the movie has no main plot, but a series of sub-plots that often never get resolved. The plot twists often felt cheap. The movie often felt like it was jarring with itself, pacing wise. Lots of slow pace filler scenes to fill in the run-time. This movie has way too many characters to follow, making it hard to remember who they are. None of them are really well-written, because of the little time, spent with each character. They felt like very offensive stereotype caricatures than real people. The film makes it worst, by making them so unlikeable, showing more of their faults, than their goods. Characters like angry white cop, John Ryan (Matt Dillon), idiotic and dangerous shop-owner Farhab (Shaun Toub), the rich, WASP snob bitch, Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock), and the gangsta hoodlum, Anthony (Ludacris) were so unpleasant. They really turn me off from the film to the point that I didn't care about their story arch. For a film with a socially conscious message, it's quite insensitive in how it portrays certain races. Its sucks that the movie doesn't have any strong Asian leads, because most of Asians, portray in this film are treated worse than any other race in this film. The only character, I found myself, rooting for was the hard-working, family-oriented Hispanic, Daniel Ruiz (Michael Pena). I really hate the fact that Farhab call Daniel's daughter, his angel. The movie already makes him look like a psycho. I was actually surprised that such a mediocre firm was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and won. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, controversially beating the critically favored Brokeback Mountain. It's hard to believe that films like 1998's American History X wasn't nominated for Best Picture, but films like this, were. In my opinion, this film was OK for critical acclaim, but it didn't deserve the Oscar for being the best film of the year. Overall: It was indeed social relevant. It was so popular that in 2008, a 13-episode series titled 'Crash' premiered on the Starz network with a similar concept. Crash does showed depth. It's not that bad of a movie. It showed that everyone can have prejudice, and can still be good in other ways. Crash is an Important Film that something profound to say. Despite all the faults, it has. It's still a semi well-made movie. I just wish, it could had been better.