I found a number of reviews for Crash online the majority of which were positive, possibly due to the fact that the movie received an Oscar for best picture. The link above gives another opinion as I also found many reviews of people who despised the film. Many people felt that the main theme of racism was over done and un realistic.
'The people in Haggis’ version of L.A. engage in openly racist behavior, and every crucial decision is informed by racism or because of racist actions against that person. This one single theme, bashed into your skull throughout, is what makes “Crash” maddening, tiring, and finally, ridiculous'
From my own point of view I enjoyed the film up to a certain point and could empathise/sympathise with some of the scenes in the film but I didnt feel close enough to the characters to really find myself truly engrossed in the film.
At its heart, the film is about mistaken identities, miscommunications, and their consequences. A man mistakes his girlfriend for being Mexican (she isn't); A gun store owner mistakes two Persian customers for being Arab, referring to one of them as 'Osama' when he becomes agitated from not understanding their language; A woman who's having the locks changed at her home doesn't trust the man changing them because he's got what she refers to as 'prison' tattoos and looks like he may be a Mexican 'gang-banger' (he's not); Two different parents attribute life altering deeds to people they rarely see (or don't even know) instead of to the people that are closest to them.
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