Crash: Swing and a Miss

Rating: 2/10 (8 March 2006)

This movie tried to be meaningful, and failed.
Crash force-feeds you racism from the standpoint of the writer and director, Paul Haggis. As the movie progresses, we are expected to learn all about the racist problems in the world, while at the same time, are fed underlying stereotypes about how different people of different races live their lives. The latter isn't intended.
This movie assumes that people live their lives with outrageous philosophies about religion, race and other people in general. The forced racism and stereotypical representation of the characters is quite flawed for a movie attempting to be so 'real' and true-to-life.
This movie, while completely centered on the topic of racism, really has nothing to do with racism - all at the same time. The complete point of the movie was to show the grittiness of racism in it's whole, from standpoints of different people in different situations. What we get is half human nature, one quarter anger and one quarter natural human nature.
If you want to see a movie about racism that shows you how bad it really is, how out of hand it can get, and what a widespread problem it is in today's society, see American History X.