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Title: makes "Do the Right Thing" look understated
Review: Unrealistic story and unrealistic dialogue can work in a more stylized or surreal piece. The suspension of reality still works. But Crash, a seemingly more naturalistic film about the malignant effects of racism, such elements become distracting, and ultimately sabotage the effort. Haggis is high-minded here, but his lack of subtlety is self-defeating, making the film predictable in parts and preposterous in others. Good performances by Matt Dillon and Terrence Howard are wasted in this film that wants us to believe that, in a city of 4.5 million, such unrelated stories would happen to intersect so seemlessly. Only in a Seinfeld episode.
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