convoluted racist exploitation film

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2006)

This is such a racist piece of garbage. When so many art independent films come out every year from new directors coming from the inner cities and vets like Spike Lee making films actually about racism from a critical point of view, Crash wins "Best Picture" I shouldn't be able to get that but I do. Crash was made by cynical Angelenos with Academy votes. More clearly, white Angelenos with Academy votes. It's a grossly simplified sophomoric view at the great west coast metropolis. It's artsy only to the extent that it looks artsy. But the cast and everything else about smells Hollywood. It tries to be something it isn't, and it comes off as racist, simple-minded, hyperbolic, and corny. Every cast member is stereotyped, every character is cookie-cutter and the directing and editing is stolen from a highly superior film, Magnolia, which is underrated and unappreciated compared to this pretentious crap.