Interesting, but not great

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2005)

I found this movie quite interesting, but it was by no means great or worthy of "Acadamy Award" buzz. My biggest complaint about the movie is that they dive into too many different stories. Granted it was interesting to see the different struggles that each face, but it did not allow me to become as emotionally attached to any one character. For this reason I can't say I loved the movie. It makes it very difficult to get absorbed into the movie because just when you begin to get attached to a character your thrown into another story. It's this jumpy disconnect that I had a problem with. I found myself comparing the movie to 21 GRAMS in the sense that they are both emotionally driven movies that have an evolving story. Difference being, 21 Grams blows Crash out of the water and that is the type of emotion I was looking to feel in Crash but did not.