Crash (2005)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 197
Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 49
A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 11
A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos.
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Movie Info
Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about his ne'er-do-well brother than him. Graham's partner is Ria (Jennifer Esposito), who is also his girlfriend, though she has begun to bristle at his emotional distance, as well as his occasional
Cast
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Sandra Bullock
Jean -
Don Cheadle
Graham Waters -
Matt Dillon
Jack Ryan -
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Shaun Toub
Farhad -
Brendan Fraser
Rick -
Terrence Howard
Cameron Thayer -
Chris "Ludacris" Bri...
Anthony -
William Fichtner
Flanagan -
Thandie Newton
Christine Thayer -
Ryan Phillippe
Officer Tom Hanson -
Larenz Tate
Peter -
Michael Peña
Daniel -
Art Chudabala
Ken Ho -
Tony Danza
Fred -
Keith David
Lt. Dixon -
Loretta Devine
Shaniqua -
Ken Garito
Bruce -
Marina Sirtis
Shereen -
Beverly Todd
Graham's Mother -
Karina Arroyave
Elizabeth -
Billy Gallo
Officer Hill -
Nona Gaye
Karen -
Sean Cory
Motorcycle Cop -
Dato Bakhtadze
Lucien -
James Haggis
Lara's Friend -
Bahar Soomekh
Dorri -
Daniel Dae Kim
Park
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All Critics (197) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (148) | Rotten (49) | DVD (36)
Haggis moves seamlessly between all these stories and has structured them in such a way that his characters reach a crisis point simultaneously, followed by melancholy clarity.
Top CriticIt's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.
Enjoy the wonderful performances by a cast very committed to the cause.
An already over-eventful narrative -- what, another crash? -- teeters into melodramatic implausibility.
[Has a] spirited and talented ensemble cast, which Haggis directs with sensitivity.
Too facile.
While it's hard not to admire Haggis' ambition here, his lofty aspirations sapped Crash of any real ingenuity or emotional punch.
A masterpiece that deserves to be watch and discussed.
A hard-hitting film whose seemingly unconnected stories and characters intersect boldly, jolting us into a raw awareness of the volatility of ethnic mix in which we live.
The script by director Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco has a scolding air to it, and watching the movie is like taking a dose of castor oil -- probably good for us but not a lot of fun.
Crash is, easily, one of the strongest American films in years. When it was over, I sat in my chair, shell-shocked in stunned silence, trying to sort out my tangled emotions.
Don't let yourself get carried away by the raves: Crash is solid but no masterpiece.
Mr. Haggis offers no easy answers, just hard questions.
a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself.
A film teeming with solemn recognition of the nasty complexities of living in a multicultural society, and much of what remains unspoken racially in America being neatly shoved under a complacent rug.
For a violent film, it is inordinately humane and refreshingly unpredictable.
This articulate and particularly poignant mood piece demands nothing of its audience, except for some brutally honest introspection about our unquestioned presumptions about the human condition. Easily, the best film of 2005.
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a corny Hollywood attempt at a social problem drama, well acted enough to recommend
Stereotypes had painfully little to the discourse of American prejudice.
Filters every scene… through the prism of race, but keeps turning the prism around and around until the colors no longer matter and we see only what the characters do.
Quickly turns into a preachy, soapbox movie.
Obnoxious, hollow, and not at all as smart or important as it thinks it is.
Film constructed of wild coincidences. A throwback to stodgy liberal melodrama of the 1960s like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Says zero about the social and economic realities of LA that breed racism.
The problem with the movie is that it is so brash and transparent in its attempt to spotlight and expose every single conceivable racial divide and stereotype, it loses all credibility and can't be but gawked at.
Audience Reviews for Crash
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- Anthony: Time is money.
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- Graham Waters: It's the sense of touch.
- Ria: What?
- Graham Waters: In the real city you, you walk, you know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.
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- Daniel: So she reaches into her backpack and she pulls out this invisible cloak and she ties it around my neck. And she tells me that it's impenetrable. You know what impenetrable means? It means nothing can go through it. No bullets, nothing. She told me that if I wore it, nothing would hurt me. So I did. And my whole life, I never got shot, stabbed, nothing. I mean, how weird is that?
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- Graham Waters: Well, fuck you very much. But thanks for thinking of me
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- Officer Tom Hanson: You think you know who you are. You had no idea.
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- Graham Waters: In any real city, you walk, you brush past people, and people bump into you. In L.A, nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.
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- L.A. Crash (DE)
- Collision (FR)
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