Crap!

Rating: 1/10 (11 March 2006)

i wanted to give this trite piece of social commentary piece a 0, but that option isn't available. what a sad, sad waste of talent there is in this movie - Paul haggis shows that he has researched on every racial slur there is in the world while writing the script though, and every second word is the F word, used as adjective, verb, adverb et al. i've never been to LA, but believe me, car crashes happen in a lot of other cities of the world as well - so to say that LA has a large number of people trying to crash into one another to reach out to their fellow human beings is such a pompous comment that you start laughing the moment it is uttered by the extremely likable Don Cheadle. You can't believe that Cheadle who is the very picture of decency as an actor can have a bad trait in him - when he 'insults' his girlfriend by calling her a Mexian (she's a Puerto Rican-El Salvadorean) you know he doesn't mean it.
Which is what the whole movie is about - none of these people really mean what they say, they are just trying to reach out to each other. Which is even more implausible a theory than the "everyone in LA is a raging racist" one.