Crash

Crash is extremely well-acted, and has great dialogue, but the plot is just too pat. Everyone is racist, including the victims of racism, we get it. We didn’t need it said over and over for two hours. But that’s what we get. In fact, of all the characters to appear on the screen, only two (the Persian daughter who works the late shift at the LA County coroner’s office and the DA’s housekeeper) aren’t shown to be explicitly racist. It’s the kind of thing that seems deeply profound in high school or college, but the plot simply isn’t as sophisticated as it should have been.

Having said that, the movie’s still worth seeing. There are, to a person, great performances in the film (including the eerie sight of Tony Danza convincingly coming off as a racist Hollywood television producer) and some very sharp dialogue, a lot of it performed by Ludacris (including a humorous attack by him on hip-hop music).

Strongly recommended for the performances and the dialogue, but as a rental, not a purchase.

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