Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2006)

I just saw Crash and now I'm angry enough to write this comment. Not even a place as culturally homogenized as Los Angeles with its goofy plasticized population can be this phony. Crash is slick and glossy with lots of name actors but the story is braindead lame.
The bad cop is redeemed and becomes a good cop -- the bad white rich lady sees the light and becomes a good white rich lady. The bad black kid gets away because of the mistreated black director -- who is very angry at "the man" -- and the good black kid gets shot to death -- by the good cop. This isn't even a bad soap opera. We don't get a three dimensional sense of racism from this film. There's just no grit here it's all too smooth and tidy.
What really pushed me over the edge was the brave little super girl who uses her magic cape to save her misunderstood Hispanic daddy from the bad Iranian man. I was waiting for her to spit the bullet out of her mouth and fly through the air.
Oh, but it wasn't really a magic cape, the bullets were blanks -- don't you know? Talk about a lucky coincidence. Coincidence is this film's middle name with one coincidence occurring right after another. They should have named it "LA Coincidence" instead of stealing the name of Cronenberg's much better film.
This movie is a series of vignettes that are supposed to connect up and make us see the big racist picture -- and the light of redemption, I presume. It's a direct ripoff of Grand Canyon and Magnolia except instead of frogs we get "snow".
I really resent being sucked in by sleazy marketing and this time I blame the idiots over at the Oscars. What a bunch of a** holes trying to be different from all the other awards ceremonies I guess and giving the best pic Oscar to this drivel.
Crash is not really a good film, it's a slick film with a lame story executed in a disjointed manner with characters so shallow you can barely relate to them.