Crash (Widescreen Edition)

Crash (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Haggis

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Actor: Dato Bakhtadze, Don Cheadle, Karina Arroyave, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton
Director: Paul Haggis
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Paul Haggis
Producer: Andrew Reimer
Producer: Betsy Danbury
Producer: Bob Yari
Producer: Cathy Schulman
Producer: Dana Maksimovich
Writer: Robert Moresco
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Korean (Original Language); Persian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate Films

DVD Reviews of Crash (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Are they kidding me?
Summary: 2 Stars

I'm glad I didn't see this in the theater because I probably would have demanded my money back and the hours it took away from my life. The film is filled with so many whining, annoying, and unbelievable characters that I rolled my eyes five minutes into the film. The tv producer lets the guy who tried to hijack him go with just a warning? The lawyer and his wife complaining about ethnic people right there in front of the repairman? I'm sure the director had good intentions with this. I'm just trying to figure out what exactly they were.

DVD Review: Pleasant experience
Summary: 5 Stars

I received the package quickly and in good condition. I appreciate the pleasant experience and will buy from this seller again.

DVD Review: Amazingly horrible film
Summary: 1 Stars

Talk about a melodramatic pile of drivel.

Crash is a completely trite, contrived, overtly racist movie where the characters are caricatures of racial stereotyping at its finest. This movie drives the point home, so far home it went down the toilet and into the septic tank.

"Racism is bad."

Yes, we all know that, but after watching this film your racist way of thinking might not be subdued. No, in fact it might grow and make you become more racist; which is NOT what this movie's message is about.

Also, this movie tries so hard to pull at our heartstrings, but if you're able to defy its attempts, you'll see that Crash is nothing more than a poorly-made film with no redeeming factors whatsoever.

DVD Review: Enough hate to go around
Summary: 4 Stars

Hatred permeates this movie. Everybody hates everyone else, mostly along racial lines. And those racial distinctions are cut rather thin, with repeated references to various "inferior" categories of common racial groups. Great pains seem to have been taken to imply that we are all infected with this villainous disease.

Movie studio bigwigs, police officers, petty thieves, and shop owners cross paths with each other and a plethora of others and a troubling time is had by all. Be prepared to stay focused for nearly two hours as the action continues to roll on. The movie does gets better with repeated viewings, as the plot lines become easier to follow.

The view of humanity it much to dark, but the movie entertains. Kudos to Ludacris for a surprisingly believable performance. Indeed, there are no weak links in this cast.

DVD Review: Crash Forward
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was unbelievable. It touched issues that every race existing in the United States faces on a daily basis. It goes farther than the 'race issue' normally categorized by blacks vs. whites. It broaches the hispanic, middle-eastern, asian, and black-on-black stereotypes that many of us who don't face racism regularly tend to ignore. I found it paradoxical the way that the characters in the movie all exemplify the stereotypes that they would like to be exonerated from.

I really enjoyed Ludacris, Don Cheadle, and Terrance Howard in their respective roles. Matt Dillon also surprised me; Dillon has spent many movies typecast into sleazy roles but his character actually makes a metamorphosis that the audience can feel and understand. Decent acting on his part. I can't say whether I think that this movie deserved to win Best Picture, but it was definitely a worthy contender.

Description of Crash (Widescreen Edition)

They all live in Los Angeles. And in the next 36 hours, they will collide.

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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