Product Description: This compelling urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast of characters struggling to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. In the gray area between black and white victim and aggressor during the next 36 hours the will all collide.System Requirements: Running Time 122 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 031398179382 Manufacturer No: 17938
Amazon.com: Movie studios, by and large, avoid controversial subjects like race the way you might avoid a hive of angry bees. So it's remarkable that Crash even got made; that it's a rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents--black, white, latino, Asian, and Persian--is downright amazing. A politically nervous district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his high-strung wife (Sandra Bullock, biting into a welcome change of pace from Miss Congeniality) get car-jacked by an oddly sociological pair of young black men (Larenz Tate and Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges); a rich black T.V. director (Terrence Howard) and his wife (Thandie Newton) get pulled over by a white racist cop (Matt Dillon) and his reluctant partner (Ryan Phillipe); a detective (Don Cheadle) and his Latina partner and lover (Jennifer Esposito) investigate a white cop who shot a black cop--these are only three of the interlocking stories that reach up and down class lines. Writer/director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby) spins every character in unpredictable directions, refusing to let anyone sink into a stereotype. The cast--ranging from the famous names above to lesser-known but just as capable actors like Michael Pena (Buffalo Soldiers) and Loretta Devine (Woman Thou Art Loosed)--meets the strong script head-on, delivering galvanizing performances in short vignettes, brief glimpses that build with gut-wrenching force. This sort of multi-character mosaic is hard to pull off; Crash rivals such classics as Nashville and Short Cuts. A knockout. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - Don't buy the hype, and don't buy this film!
By almost every metric Crash defies classification as a bad film. The acting is excellent all around, the production is clearly big-budget, and the theme, racism, is anything but trivial. The fact that it IS a terrible movie despite all it seems to have going for it makes the disappointment that much more acute.
Watching Crash is like getting smashed on the head repeatedly with a mallet while someone shouts "RACISM IS BAD! EVERYONE IS A RACIST! YOU ARE SOMEONE SO YOU MUST BE A RACIST! YOU ARE BAD!". This goes on for about two hours.
If that weren't bad enough someone else is repeatedly kicking you in the groin while shouting "THIS FILM IS OSCAR WORTHY! IT REALLY IS! THE ACADEMY SAYS SO!"
I don't want to trash the Oscar process here, but suffice it to say that Crash was well served by an intensive (and expensive) Oscar campaign, so don't let the best-picture award fool you. ... Read More
Rating: - Great film, will challenge your views on a variety of hot topics!
Now, this is one helluva movie! I watched 'Crash' again this weekend and I was as compelled now as when I first saw it. This film challenges you, especially if you grew up in the U.S. You know the movies that have you guessing until the end? Think you got it all figured out, only to find out you were way off base? This is 'Crash'! But even moreso, what are your views regarding prejudice, racism, stereotyping, sexism? I am sure you will be tested and forced to rethink your stance once you see this. There's an A-List group of actors in this film. The cast performs splendidly, each actor sharing an equal presence, no one star appearing larger than the other. Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Ludacris, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Esposito, just to name a few. The movie takes the viewer through a series twists and turns, from regualar situations from traffic accidents to the unimaginable car jacking! Not ... Read More
Rating: - Believe the hype - it's overrated.
Before the Oscar hype, I saw Crash during it's theatrical run and wasn't all that impressed. It's a visual mess and is full of hammy stereotypes. Performances are actually good, but a bad script is a bad script. It all seems so thrown together. Worst of all, it's one of the preachiest movies I've ever seen. Instead of allowing the audience to react based on their own individual perceptions, 'Crash' TELLS you how to feel. This is the kind of movie that one expects to break even and eventually be forgotten as there's much better (and more intelligent) material out there that deals with these issues and doesn't insult the intelligence of it's audience in doing so.
I was shocked when it got the nomination and you could have knocked me over with a feather when it won Best Picture.
Watch 'Do The Right Thing' instead, a great movie with wonderful characters that actually lets you draw your own conclusions.
Rating: - Ugh
Just when I think that the Right Wing mullahs that run this nation could not possibly be smarter than any other sort of human beings, I am proved wrong. The Los Angeles Guilty White Liberal has got to be the dumbest form of humanity going, even moreso than the inbred hillbilly. You know who I mean: the latte sipping crowd that brought you such critically lauded trash as The Hours, which plumbed every arts cliché imaginable; Monster, which revealed Feminazism's worst side (i.e.- murdering men is ok if the murderer disingenuously claims all men are bad rapists); or Million Dollar Baby, which proved that white trash are probably the only social group still open for out and out mockery. That last piece of tripe, incidentally, was penned by Paul Haggis, the man who wrote and directed this past year's Academy Award winning film of the year, Crash.... Perhaps the most ridiculous, and humorous, moment comes in a cameo where television ... Read More
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