Crash is truly an awful and embarrassing movie. After watching this mess I wanted those two hours of my life back. This one dimensional send-up on race relations left me shaking my head. The acting was mediocre at best with Sandra Bullock giving one of the worst performances of 2005. The interlocking story lines has been done so many times before and much better. When I was watching this I had to ask myself...was this movie done by a bunch of high school students? It didn't seem plausible that a so called serious director was involved in the making of this movie. The silliness from the magic clock on the little girl, to the blank bullets and dumping of the Asian immigrants in the middle of Los Angeles left me cringing. The fact that this after school special peppered with profanity won for best picture at the Oscars has left me numb with disbelief. The fact that Crash won over the brilliance of Brokeback Mountain has left me stunned. It really must be true about the rampant homophobia and bigotry of academy voters who wanted anything but Brokeback Mountain to take home best picture. So I guess they went for what they thought was an important movie on race relations. I feel sad for these people. The credibility of the Oscars has be greatly reduced in the eyes of the world after this fiasco.
