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Crash

2005
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 52m
A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. Diving headlong into the diverse melting pot of post-9/11 Los Angeles, this compelling urban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic case of characters' struggles to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. (Lions Gate Films)
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Crash

2005
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 52m
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Rated 14 Feb 2007
0
2nd
WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE
Rated 20 Jul 2007
38
39th
Ugh. Forgive me for not being swept away by the epic amount of cynicism exercised by Paul Haggis. "A movie about racism? Well boy howdy, how 'bout I dumb it down, cram it full of wild stereotypes, and add a sad-sack weepy score! Audiences will cry! Oscar will be mine! Hollywood can SUCK MY HACK DICK!"
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
0th
WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE
Rated 02 May 2007
25
20th
Racism For Dummies (TM)
Rated 05 Aug 2007
65
38th
Deep down inside, the apparently nice guys are racists, and the apparent racists are really nice guys! DO YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE?
Rated 02 Sep 2008
6
1st
When this won the Oscar for Best Picture I threw my car keys at the screen. Spawning a horde of also bad inter-narrative faux-documentary melodramas, the story is akin to intellectual masturbation: it feels good in the moment, but no matter what you do is not as good as the real thing (in this case: thinking). Crash has caustic contempt for its audience, with no real moral other than we are all racist (Yes! You can be too!), so deal. Fuck you, movie.
Rated 17 Mar 2008
10
7th
WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE WHITE PEOPLE BLACK PEOPLE MEXICAN PEOPLE ASIAN PEOPLE
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
4th
Consistently aims at the lowest common denominator, while pretending to make a grand statement about racism, prejudices and all that jazz. Successful in manipulating people's feelings and technically well-shot, but how this ended up getting an Oscar nomination, let alone win it is a mystery. Actually, it's not, since getting that nomination seems to have been the prime motivation behind the making of this film.
Rated 01 Nov 2009
60
41st
Has a message but the film shouts instead of talking.
Rated 14 Jul 2012
8
8th
Mr. Haggis, I hope you get bitten on the dick by a snake and your mother is the only one around to suck out the venom.
Rated 13 Mar 2009
73
59th
Brokeback was fucking robbed. [2]
Rated 10 Jul 2007
1
10th
Cloying melodrama mired in weepy sentimentality and populated by a bunch of walking cliches. One of the most Oscar-hungry films I've ever seen. Brokeback was fucking robbed.
Rated 31 Oct 2011
26
18th
For many reasons I've avoided this movie like the plague for years! Finally I gave in & watched it. What I was naively hoping for was an intelligent movie dealing with race issues and stereotypes in an engaging and thought provoking manner. What I got was justification for why I've avoided this movie! What I got was a self righteous, manipulative melodrama, full of average performances, inane direction and pointless hollow statements from crudely stereotyped characters. I shouldn't of bothered.
Rated 29 Jan 2007
55
27th
Pretentious, cheap, very IN-YOUR-FACE but ultimately entertaining.
Rated 24 Feb 2008
99
99th
Love this movie because of the way in which all the characters have their own personal feelings towards racism. Just a beautiful film. The part where the little girl almost gets shot almost made me cry.. What a touching movie, what a superb story..
Rated 08 Jul 2007
0
0th
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
Rated 29 Sep 2008
15
15th
To call it "Magnolia lite" would be doing that movie a grave disservice. Instead it's a two hour soap opera with hammy acting, woeful contrivances and a hypocritical, trite message. Everyone involved should have filed for moral bankruptcy long ago.
Rated 29 Aug 2009
90
20th
This movie did a great job of showing the different stereotypes that goes along with ethnic backgrounds. It portrays certain races to be either ignorant, racist, or paranoid. However at the end, when worse comes to worse, everyone is able to put their personal feelings aside and help each other out. You are able to see more extreme examples of racism around the world through these convincing characters.
Rated 20 Jan 2007
57
14th
Crash has its heart in the right place. Unfortunately, it has practically nothing to say on the subject of racism, and certainly nothing new to say about it. It's so weighty and ham-fisted, I get the sense that the filmmakers think they're going to change the world with their little movie. For something that tries to hard to be controversial, there's nothing controversial (or enlightening) about it.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
93
97th
Love it or hate it, I found "Crash" to be 2005's best film. Superior acting and storytelling, a movie of profound intelligence, it finds the perfect commentary on the effects of everyday racism in America today. Plus that cast ain't bad. Dillon deserved the Oscar over Clooney, no question. But a surprising Best Picture win, rejoice.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
2
21st
Unconvincing.
Rated 27 May 2008
95
99th
Sure we've all seen this type of movie before. Everyone's lives are intertwined with one another. Sure we've seen a cast with lots of recognizable actors. Sure we've seen all this before, but we haven't seen it done quite like Crash. There are no let ups in the crisscrossing of the story line, all the actors are played wonderfully, with a large portion of them playing characters that are truly eye opening (Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Esposito, and Matt Dillon with important roles?).
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
5th
It's like "Everybody Poops! The Movie!" except with racism instead of scat. Imbecilic at every turn, pandering to an audience that expects self-defeating, broadly drawn stereotypes. Will give you as much insight into racism as NASCAR will give you into athleticism.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
39th
Not exactly subtle.
Rated 15 May 2008
75
48th
Made me cry when I saw it, now I'm not really sure why. Kind of overwrought.
Rated 25 Oct 2008
86
81st
Tackles racism from a variety of angles and through a number of characters who are all intertwined. It isn't the most subtle film you will ever watch but I still became totally submersed in it.
Rated 23 Feb 2007
85
63rd
An amazing movie about a common American problem, which is rarely understood by other people from outside of US.
Rated 06 Apr 2009
28
84th
It's amazing how good this movie is with all the B actors. Okay, maybe Cheadle is a B plus.
Rated 18 Mar 2007
67
36th
A poor man's Do the Right Thing.
Rated 21 Apr 2007
2
13th
There are one or two powerful scenes that make this movie worth watching. Other than that, it's a mess. The ridiculous story and caricatures all completely undermine the severity of the subject matter.
Rated 22 Mar 2008
15
2nd
The only thing good to come out of Crash was that sometimes old people will accidentally watch the other Crash.
Rated 05 Oct 2007
2
15th
Crash is a mess in a number of ways. It opens with a series of ham-fisted establishing scenes, where everybody is ridiculously and comically racist and exploding at all the people around them. Then it shifts and has a number of powerful scenes in the second half, especially the one where the cop helps the woman out of the burning car. The acting is strong but they're given shitty material to work with, it's well-directed at times but often overwrought, and it ends with an odd attempt at humor.
Rated 16 Mar 2008
35
16th
Some great acting from Terrence Howard and Matt Dillon elevate the work from being truly terrible (please try and disregard Sandra Bullock's unintentionally hilarious performance). But it is bad. What an awful, predictable, cliche-riddled film this is, that thinks it is being so daring by telling the world something everyone already knows: that racism is bad. I find it hard to accept a statement on racism, however, from a movie where every character is a stereotype.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
100
94th
one of the best movies i have ever seen
Rated 14 Nov 2008
95
97th
Great movie about important for today's societies problems. It provoke us to deep reflections.
Rated 14 Jan 2010
9
3rd
Racism is....... good? No wait. Shit, hang on.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
25
4th
One of the worst oscar winners ever.
Rated 05 Oct 2010
0
0th
I don't think I will EVER be able express my hate for this film in words. I was SEETHING by the end of it.
Rated 12 Oct 2012
86
51st
Okay, I can see where this would turn so many people off, and I personally don't know if I would say it's really a best picture the Academy Awards gave it. The message is sort of forced. I thought it was forced pretty well (if that makes sense) though. Love it or hate it, this is how a handful of people are. I also loved some of the performances and the directing and writing, and for those reasons alone, I really liked it. Not for everybody, but it is at least well-made.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
55
24th
Crash is one of those films for people who want to feel like they're watching good cinema. It strives to be this epic, in-your-face depiction of racism in LA, but it's so full of stereotypes itself that it almost feels, (dare I say it?)... RACIST! This movie did not deserve the Oscar for Best Picture. Very mediocre.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
2nd
Over the top, ridiculous, horribly-written doodoo. 2 for the opening line and the acting.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
99
97th
For sure movie of the year. Damn, they're on a roll with the movies that can move me huh? How about that scene with the mexican and the iranian and the gun? MAN.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
37
23rd
Paul Haggis sucks.
Rated 26 Jul 2020
34
13th
In a world where race is the only thing anyone ever thinks or talks about, everyone is racist, but you know that one guy who's more racist than anyone else? The cop? Well guess what, he's actually not racist because remember the black woman he sexually assaulted? Yeah, he pulls that same woman from a burning car, so he can't really be racist, also his dad can't piss because he has a UTI, so he's actually super sympathetic and not a giant piece of shit at all. Fuck off, Crash.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
0th
Hi, my name is crash. I am a movie. I am an "Issues" film. I will ram this message into your head until it bleeds. I also have "Enya" style music. Do you want to commit suicide now??? How this overbaked turkey got an academy award is beyond me... Watching this made me feel like I'd fucked up the arse by Oprah (Who devoted an ENTIRE episode of her show to promoting this dreck)
Rated 14 Aug 2007
83
77th
I wanted to hate it because it's so LA, but Matt Dillon pulled it out for me -- he created such an amazing, well-rounded character, hateful and heroic by turns -- that I fell for the movie and let its air of interpersonal separation affect me.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
26th
overrated
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
82nd
I cried at the little girl scene :( Great film, if a little exaggurative of the racial differences.
Rated 16 Jan 2019
0
0th
this movie thinks soda is too spicy
Rated 30 Nov 2006
98
94th
Unfairly bashed after surprisingly winning the oscar, this is one of the greatest movies of the last years. An amazing experience in cinema and very intelligent.
Rated 12 Mar 2008
31
9th
Annoying melodrama that tries to be profound and falls way short, instead being yet another failed attempt at tolerance from Hollywood. No wonder it did well at the Oscars.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
88th
Seems like an update of Grand Canyon
Rated 06 Mar 2015
2
1st
Crash is about prejudice, which is not the same thing as racism. The script could not break with stereotypes, contained too many implausibilities and relied too heavily on coincidence. However, it is eminently watchable, draping its concerns around one like a warm blanket, unless one notices one is being manipulated
Rated 07 Jan 2009
97
90th
One fo the best dramas I've ever seen. Very strong plot twist with a great feel for negativities of racism.
Rated 09 Jul 2010
80
79th
This was a very good movie, I'd say. It kept me interested, it was touching at the end, and it had its humorous moments. It didn't pull any punches and didn't cater to the generic Hollywood idea of what racism is.
Rated 17 Jul 2010
6
17th
I cannot understand for the life of me how this won Best Picture, especially considering it's basically Traffic, but shittier. Maybe this would have been groundbreaking forty years ago, but it's a poorly written overwrought drama that attempts to make deep, thought provoking points about race by having people bitch about racial stereotypes, and then act according to them, and by having the same damn woman wailing for half the film.
Rated 02 Jan 2007
92
98th
Fantabulously bloody brilliant
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
70th
This movie was great. It had so many characters but you never stopped caring about any of them. Each story could have stood alone but were tied together so well.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
88
86th
Just has three of the most intense scenes of the year. Heavy-handed...blah! Whatever. I loved it.
Rated 16 Mar 2009
7
57th
(after repeat viewings) Some of the characters like the one played by Ludacris are annoying af but I blame it on the writing. Even though the whole thing is overdramatised, I think it's well acted and features some powerful scenes throughout. Haters gonna hate.
Rated 12 Feb 2011
40
25th
Haggis hopes that if he hits the same note often enough and loudly enough, it'll be enough to attract your attention. The result is a tremendously annoying film which says nothing except the blatantly obvious. A few good scenes (like the one in the burning car) manage to prevent it from being completely awful.
Rated 09 Oct 2009
90
98th
Stunning plot, the connection between everything is beautifully thought out. A lot of big names and a lot of very good acting. Nice camerawork and a few beautiful twists.
Rated 15 Apr 2012
5
0th
A more contrived and despicable film you would have trouble finding Unbelievable that this has attracted so much positive attention from seemingly intelligent people. 5 marks for the fact that it has production values. The script and storyboard would be less than zero were that possible.
Rated 09 Nov 2010
74
74th
the script is about people whose lives get connected to each other by an accident . the roles are played fantastic . some of the scenes are directed perfectly . but it shows Iranian people aggressive and koskhol .
Rated 01 Mar 2007
60
21st
Very solid acting, good pacing, but the script is way pretentious and fabricated. This is basically a far less inventive, weaker clone of Magnolia, lacking its freshness and wild originality.
Rated 25 Jun 2013
23
2nd
Even though I was 25 when I saw it, I literally had no idea that racism could be so...so... formulaic.
Rated 08 Oct 2007
90
94th
A film excellent and emotive that shows various visions of the preconception racial, religious and of social class.
Rated 07 Apr 2008
85
88th
Watched this because I saw an interview with Haggis where he talked about the problems. As he was writing it he kept wondering whether it was a movie; but in the end it does indeed prove to be one. The carjacker guys are very funny (with an obvious debt to Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield). As Haggis said, the climax was in the middle (and most moving it was too). At first I was annoyed by all the yakking, but then I got drawn in. Also features perhaps the cutest little girl in world history.
Rated 01 Dec 2009
90
82nd
An awesome multi layered drama. The cast is superb
Rated 04 Apr 2007
84
76th
I overheard a guy say "THAT MOVIE WAS TOTALLY ABOUT RACISM!" as though he were making some sort of grand observation. Next, he should've proceeded to tell people about how he'd noticed Star Wars was set in space. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. Movie's good.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
10
0th
I don't know what anyone saw in this movie. It was very boring and it sucked.
Rated 06 May 2007
80
65th
Don Cheadle is AGAIN a genius. This guy needs as much work as he wants.
Rated 11 Apr 2012
100
95th
amazing film on society really opens your eyes
Rated 08 May 2008
5
0th
I really hate this movie.
Rated 18 May 2007
40
9th
As subtle as a crutch, Crash screams at the audience about racism, without giving any reasosn to care about characters. Admittedly, Haggis does not try to develop characters or make a realistic movie, but he fails to have the viewer care about what he is saying.
Rated 04 Jun 2007
92
91st
very well done
Rated 30 Jul 2009
80
92nd
I don't understand the hate that this film gets. It was the best film nominated that year, and it deserved the Oscar. Great film.
Rated 13 Jun 2007
50
13th
Keeps you riveted though it's a very average film. Just feels like the writer strung a whole bunch of racist incidents together into a storyline which does not make for a good film. Didactic and simplistic.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
88
68th
Good, but too coincidental and at times glib to be as great as the subject could have been.
Rated 16 Sep 2014
95
98th
One of the best movies of the 00's in my book
Rated 26 Feb 2010
90
96th
Such an awesome movie. I remember having real emotion watching it.
Rated 02 Jan 2009
45
20th
What was this movie about again? It didn't shove it's message down my throat enough.
Rated 19 Oct 2011
95
97th
One of the best movies made in last ten years. It is omnibus, yet it is completely one story. It is connected, yet so disconnected. If people in one country, one city can not understand and feel for each other, how in hell they would understand and feel for rest of the world. This is film about loneliness, about love and hate, about fucked up society, and his fucked up norms. Do not miss it.
Rated 17 Jan 2010
55
19th
Crash tries hard to make some statement about race, prejudice, and stereotypes but fails to understand the subject matter beyond a superficial level. Even in the writing the characters fell into various rehashed Hollywood archetypes and there were even some rather blatant stereotypes (Asian) being represented which sort of kills the whole film's premise right there. The film is still slick and competently directed but it definitely didn't deserve all the accolades and praise it's received.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
80
77th
Maybe a pretentious movie, but I actually liked most of the storylines.
Rated 06 Jul 2008
80
65th
This is actually a good movie, but it treats the subject with a Hollywood hand, as opposed to a more intellectual approach.
Rated 09 Sep 2010
93
97th
I have never felt such intense relief as I did in one scene in this movie. Its rare a movie can do that, and this one is masterfully done through out.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
54
11th
Extremely unbelievable and all the characters only act in extremes. I just couldn't see what made this movie so "real." Yes, everyone is racist deep down inside, but not everyone is crazy inside. I did like some of the jokes in the movie, as well as how Matt Dillon's character pans out.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
97th
Great social commentary.
Rated 16 Nov 2007
90
96th
really was blown away by this when i saw it. didn't know what to expect and was more than pleasantly surprised.
Rated 04 Apr 2012
55
30th
I liked the movie but it comes to a point where you're just like, ok, we get it, people are racist, is there anything else driving this plot or what?
Rated 16 Feb 2009
10
15th
Thought it was a bad joke. Points for being hilarious, though. The car scene was brilliant unintentional comedy.
Rated 07 Aug 2008
90
90th
Intense movie with a plot where everything can happen. Strong cast and ofcourse good message.
Rated 11 Feb 2009
100
92nd
Incredible movie...I have watched it several times and still love it
Rated 01 Sep 2009
59
63rd
Emotionally, it's very powerful. The amount of coincidences begin to get ridiculous, and sometimes the emotional manipulation can be too obvious. But, I'd be lying if I said that emotional manipulation didn't work on me a couple of times.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
63
34th
The message is lubricated and then shoved directly up your butt. That being said some of the performances are excellent.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
89th
Rarely do I get so wrapped up in movies that I have a physical reaction to what's happening on the screen. Crash was different. The story of the locksmith and his young daughter sent me leaping out of my seat even though I had a good idea what was coming. The other storylines are slightly less engaging for me (though likely more-so for others), but they're all still very compelling in their own right.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
66th
I liked and respected this movie without loving it. Too manipulative and frankly with so many characters, the don cheadle subplot was incomprehensible.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
71st
Crash, as the title suggest, is a hard hitting story revolvoing around racisms in LA. Its parts shine more than the totality of the movie, and its in these separate moments is what makes Crash memorable.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
89th
When you hear that there are too many racial cliches in the film, please realize that that is the point. The film is poignant and the acting couldn't be better. Awesome!

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