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Crash [Blu-ray]

Crash [Blu-ray]
by Paul Haggis

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Actor: Dato Bakhtadze, Don Cheadle, Karina Arroyave, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton
Director: Paul Haggis
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Paul Haggis
Producer: Andrew Reimer
Producer: Betsy Danbury
Producer: Bob Yari
Producer: Cathy Schulman
Producer: Dana Maksimovich
Writer: Robert Moresco
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate

Movie Reviews of Crash [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Gritty and Compelling
Summary: 5 Stars

CRASH offers up a sinister 36-hour cruise through L.A.'s mean streets, reveling in the squallor, evil, and selfish sights along the way. The stories that unfold in the movie are so true to life that they hurt. Waters, a black homicide detective, has to deal with his addicted mother and law-breaking brother while trying to be a fair man in an unfair world. Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock play two of the chosen few to reach to the top of the ladder of success only to find out that they're hollow and not people the audience will root for. Ludicris turns in a solid performance as a black heister out to avenge the wrongs done by the white world.

Paul Haggis wrote the compelling script, layering in the stories like Chinese boxes, so that when you open one, there's another. Each of them are tied tightly together, and none of them effectively work without the other pieces making the experience whole. A gamut of big-name stars worked on the film, bringing this failing world to light and splitting it right down the middle over issues of race and wealth and privilege.

The Blu-Ray presentation is absolutely amazing, which is why you'll want to pick this disc up even if you've already got the movie. The picture is top-shelf, beautifully presented. Though the sound quality isn't uncompressed the way movies should be packaged on the Blu-ray and the HD DVD releases (which studios haven't yet made a standard), it is exceptional and moving.

CRASH is harsh, abrupt, and hard to take. But it is also compelling drama that will keep you frozen in place watching to see how everything all works out.

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Summary of Crash [Blu-ray]

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R

Movie studios, by and large, avoid controversial subjects like race the way you might avoid a hive of angry bees. So it's remarkable that Crash even got made; that it's a rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents--black, white, latino, Asian, and Persian--is downright amazing. A politically nervous district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his high-strung wife (Sandra Bullock, biting into a welcome change of pace from Miss Congeniality) get car-jacked by an oddly sociological pair of young black men (Larenz Tate and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges); a rich black T.V. director (Terrence Howard) and his wife (Thandie Newton) get pulled over by a white racist cop (Matt Dillon) and his reluctant partner (Ryan Phillipe); a detective (Don Cheadle) and his Latina partner and lover (Jennifer Esposito) investigate a white cop who shot a black cop--these are only three of the interlocking stories that reach up and down class lines. Writer/director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby) spins every character in unpredictable directions, refusing to let anyone sink into a stereotype. The cast--ranging from the famous names above to lesser-known but just as capable actors like Michael Pena (Buffalo Soldiers) and Loretta Devine (Woman Thou Art Loosed)--meets the strong script head-on, delivering galvanizing performances in short vignettes, brief glimpses that build with gut-wrenching force. This sort of multi-character mosaic is hard to pull off; Crash rivals such classics as Nashville and Short Cuts. A knockout. --Bret Fetzer

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