Life is not 'black and white'!

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2015)

The promise of 'Crash' makes its outlook very compelling, good cast in a movie about inter-twining lives against the backdrop of a big city and all its problems. However this film is nowhere near as powerful or brilliant as '21 Grams' which followed a similar concept but was perfectly executed. With 'Crash' we have a movie which deals with racism but each character is so stereo-typical who makes decisions we all expect them to make that the whole story becomes predictable and at times boring. The performances are good, which is not surprising when you assemble a top cast but the movie is dis-jointed and none of the characters are such that you would really care about what they do or what happens to them. There prejudices which are all based on racism are too blatant and their turnaround farcical. It would have been much more interesting if the movie had at least some characters who have sub-conscious prejudices which surface in a particular situation, this is a lot more common than the characters shown in this movie. All in all, this film is over-rated, the effort behind it was good but the end result very disappointing and dull. @zulfmanauthor