I first saw Crash back in December before it was announced that it was up for best picture at this year's Oscars. After viewing it for the first time I thought it was pretty good, not the best but worth a watch.
Then it won best picture.
Now that the movie has been on Showtime a lot latley, I was able to catch it a few more times and I realized that this is probably won of the most overrated movies of 2005.
First off, this movie has terrible replay value. It really gets worse everytime you watch it and I realized this after watching this the second and third time.
The whole movie is annoyingly contrived. For about two hours, the whole movie pretty much beats the whole message of "YES RACISM IS WRONG" into you and it gets very irritating after the first time you watch it.
Also, the whole movie is horribly miscasted. Sandra Bullock and Brandon Fraser just suck to begin with and it was no different in this film. Ryan Phillipe as a cop is laughable and LUDACRIS? c'mon now.
Overall, I don't think it's a bad movie despite it's obvious flaws but it certainly didn't deserve the oscar for best film (But then again, none of the movies in the past 4 years deserved them either).
Discuss.