Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2006)

This film has been entirely overrated. Viewing it with high hopes will certainly disappoint.
The cast is excellent, and although the performances are quite good, the story itself is so riddled with preposterous racism and negativity, the movie as a whole becomes forced, frustrating, and highly predictable.
Character development is polarized, making each sequence more predictable than the next. Dramatic scenes become almost ridiculous as these polarized characters are forced to clash. Everything to the extreme; in Crash there is no middle ground. While the film intends to shock the audience with the reality of racism and prejudice, it forgets that life itself, be it in LA or Kansas City, is not so divided, and not so grim. Yes, we all live in our separate worlds, with our own history, and our own lives, but we certainly do not throw down the gauntlet when confronted with differences. A world like this would be chaos, and contrary to popular belief we do not live in a world of chaos.
Other outstanding reviews beg the question, do people really think this is the way life is? Sad. I can see now why Nicholson was so shocked to read "Crash" in the Best Picture envelope.