Excellent Movie, one of the best of '05

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2005)

Crash is a movie that almost anyone can enjoy because it delves into characters and brings the spectator an incredibly beautiful visual experience with incredible camera work by James Muro and superb story telling by Paul Haggis. While Haggis did once create Walker Texas Ranger, something that can never be forgiven, he did also create Million Dollar Baby, so that tells you something about his scale. The most amazing and interesting thing about this movie, is that it takes the actors and puts them in roles many people wouldn't expect them to have the ability to perform well in. Matt Dillon easily presents his greatest performance on film and Don Cheadle does a great job in not only acting but bringing the film to the screen the right way. The most surprising role in the film is the work of Michael Pena who delivers a very powerful and believable performance. The one thing that almost kills this movie however is the constant banter from Chris 'Ludicrous' Bridges mouth. The constant racist jokes from most actors and paranoid conspiracy theories spilled out of Ludicrous' mouth are enough to take the spectator out of the movie entirely. Many of the jokes are in fact hilarious, but they often go way to far as to have to tell them once every 3-5 scenes, turning the film into saturated crap in some parts. However take a great job from both crew and cast and a very well written screen play, and add Mark Isham's incredible score and you have a Class A film.