USER REVIEWS:
asbury 9Once you gets past the uncomfortable feeling that events seem a bit contrived (they are!) and that the characters seem a bit too stereotypical (they are!), you should be able to appreciate these elements as the integral components of the film that they are meant to be.
The film uses these techniques to help generate its evocative nature and to force us to examine some of the more unsavory realities of life. Do people really talk this way? Well no, and yes. Can real life events be so coincidental? Probably not, but then the "crash" these characters are subjected to would never have happened and you’d clearly end up with a less substantial film in the end. So forgive the exaggeration and marvel at the outcome.
jorgemir 9Saw a preview for this a while back and have been wanting to see it ever since. Thanks to the lightning speed of how movies go from theatre to DVD I didn't get a chance to see this in the theatre. I loved the mish-mash story telling a-la Pulp Fiction and the ensemble of actors was great. Now I know why everyone who saw it was telling me, "You have to see Crash." Definitely one of the better movies to come out over the past 12 months.
madmitch 9Distressing if this is the way it actually is in LA. Well put together, difficult to watch, but worth it just the same.
blindholms 6hmm. I didn't like it. It was so predictable and preachy. Seems I was the only one...
lissy 8The story lines were a little forced, but the movie is definately worth watching.
lalligood 8Yes a number of the scenes were contrived but I loved the out of sync vignettes that slowly intermingled ala "Traffic". The racism message has plenty of impact but "American History X" delivers it better and with a more simple story.
wynns 7Tries too hard. Not a "bad" movie, but not as meaningful as it hopes it was. Still, worth the 100 minutes because the performances believable and interesting.
dack 3Just awful. The first half I felt like I was repeatedly bludgeoned with a 50-pound cudgel. The second half felt like I was emotionally played like violin that the movie wasn't anywhere close to deserving. I wish I'd have turned it off, except I would've missed the ridiculous Thai immigrant scenes that provided a chuckle. Completely criminal if this crap wins Best Picture. Of course Roger Ebert loves it. If there is a worse critic I'd like to know.
langlitzblog 7One of the better movies I saw last year, but some of the situations were just too unbeliveable.
shodanbro 7Set in LA, Crash is a great pastiche in the vein of Magnolia, but on America racial attitudes and socio-economic strife, marred by not 1 too many, but 100 too many contrived coincidences.
robrant 8...and not just because I'm the anti-Dack. Pretty good movie but I agree that it tries a little too hard sometimes. Good choice for Best Picture.
stevilbot 6kind of preachy, overblown and uses some obvious techniques to pull at you. it was good, but not oscar-worthy.
scrappy 3Would have been a ground-breaking film in 1967...but it still would not have been a good film.
Everything about this film is a rip-off of another film. Race relations and LA, jeez haven't heard of that before. What's next a movie about slavery set in...the...south? The issues this film addresses are important and need to be dealt with, but there is nothing new, exciting and/or ground-breaking in this film that makes it Oscar worthy.
Oracle 5Academy Award winner Crash, expresses its meaning without any point.
Crash is a very nice film, most of the time. It has a great cast that always work together in this film. Its main meaning: to show you racism. And that is exactly what it accomplishes. The examples of racism that they give in Crash, can be very repetitive to the point where you do not need anymore examples. I guess you can say that Crash tries too hard. Basically, all it is compilation of a great cast, repetitive moments, and preachy predicaments that in the end, I guess you can say, works out alright. This was not worth best picture.
Grade: C
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