Bob Rafelson, the director of Five Easy Pieces , teams up with Jack Nicholson to once again probe the dark side of human existence. A cheesy and familiar action script dilutes any true sense of inquiry, and there's an insufferable, Oedipal subplot thrown in just to make sure the audience feels good and insulted. A trippy, pointless exercise in style from David Cronenberg, director of Naked Lunch and Videodrome , among others.
Crash looks great but delivers little.
This basically involves engaging in sexual activity in, around, or after violent car crashes. The wonderful cast, including Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette , is so poorly directed they literally seem to be wandering around aimlessly. Zesty Italian mobsters shoot, hack and smash each other to smithereens one more time in this reprise of the Mafia flick. There's nothing new here, but if you're a fan of the mobster drama, this one's entirely passable. The movie version of the life of Howard Stern, the wildly popular New York disc jockey known for his adolescent humor, doesn't even attempt to be a comedy.