Crash (2004)

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. .

Rating:

[imdb]0375679[/imdb]

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