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Friday, May 16, 2008

CRASH (2005)

30 years ago, Clint Eastwood kept a talented filmmaker in line and pulled off a solid commercial hit. Sans Clint, that success was followed by an acclaimed Best Pic winner that was an overrated, pretentious piece of overheated dramatic hooey and quickly led to the speediest career decline in Hollywood history. The films?: Michael Cimino’s THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT, THE DEER HUNTER and HEAVEN’S GATE. Now, Paul Haggis has followed his satisfying writing gig for Eastwood on MILLION DOLLAR BABY with an acclaimed Best Pic winner of his own that’s an overrated, pretentious piece of overheated dramatic hooey. This laughable LaLaLand roundelay wants to examine our conflicting attitudes toward race, violence & personal/moral compromise, but it plays like a Paddy Chayefsky/Neil LaBute rewrite of SHORT CUTS. Don Cheadle & Terrence Howard squeak by without embarrassment, but really . . .

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