Crash

The ‘writer’ of Million Dollar Baby, Paul Haggis (and I’m sure there’s a joke here) used his sudden fame to direct his first big movie, Crash – no relation to the Cronenberg yuck-fest.

This is better made than the Eastwood movie, but is one of those annoyingly shapeless movies which critics love (‘a multi-character mosaic’) and everyone else hates. Characters float in and out of the plot like the script pages were shuffled, there’s a vague point about racism being forcefully made and if you like being patronized, step right up.

Somehow Haggis assembled an amazing cast for this twaddle – Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser and er, Tony Danza…

Mild Peril Rating: ★½☆☆☆

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2 Responses to Crash (2004)

  1. Si on November 19, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    I liked it. Any film with Tony Danza has to be good! Was my favourite film of the year. The Academy Awards people agreed with me too :)

  2. [...] Haggis, who used to have a solid career writing TV shows before creating preachy atrocities like Crash and Million Dollar Baby. Anyway, I decided that I’d give him the benefit of the doubt, as [...]

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