crash

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2005)

After reading several comments, I do need to react. I had high expectations after hearing a lot of fuzz about this film but it was quite a disappointment.... The theme of the film is great: showing modern metropolitan life in present situation, filled with frustration and prejudice against anything that is different, unknown or mostly: foreign. But it is done in such a blatant way, that it irritates me more than that it grabs me. Every character being introduced shouts out something racist at least before their third sentence is finished, so we all know how their character is and that most likely, at the end of the film this will change. And of course, the one being shout at, turns out to be a perfect citizen, while the presumed perfect citizens turn out to have their dark sides as well..... This continues throughout the whole film and every situation: you can really predict (almost) every situation and development, which was very disappointing and annoying as well. In some cases (e.g. without spoiling it: Sandra Bullock and the maid..) you see it coming miles ahead and at first expect something different to happen, cause otherwise it would be too easy, but damn, the most obvious happens! So despite the great acting, beautiful filming etc, this was a very unsatisfying movie to me....