Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Los Angeles, Post 9/11City of AngelsLos Angeles: where the racial tensions are bad, and the traffic is worse. It's the perfect place for Crash, a movie about road rage, racial rage, and just rage i...

Interlocking NarrativesCrash features about two dozen characters with interlocking stories all brought together by fate. It's a technique used by many films in the 90s, like Pulp Fiction (1994), Go...

Drama, Drama, DramaCrash is a film that tries so hard to ooze drama. Characters go off on dramatic monologues. A little girl is almost shot in sloooooowwwwwwww mooooooooootioooooonnnnnnn. Sandra Bu...

Crash Into Someone ElseDo you really need us here, folks? The title is explained in the very first line of the movie. WATERS: It's the sense of touch. […] Any real city, you walk, you know? You b...

Starts with a Bang, Ends with a WhimperCrash begins with a car accident, but not all its characters' endings are so dramatic. Some of them are, though: Detective Waters is called to a crime scene o...

RCrash is chock full of racial slurs, gun violence, gratuitous nudity, and people yelling and screaming at one another for almost two hours straight. It's rated R for Race, Revolvers, Ria's boobs,...