Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

dumayegor Crash is the product of its time and is no more interesting. This Freud thing stinks, especially when presented this explicitly. I have to note, though, that the idea of being addicted to crashes and scars is almost dreamlike, feels like a holdover from my previous life. Somehow it reminded me of "Sex, lies and videotape". Anyway, I wouldn't say that my first foray into Kronenberg has been an amazing experience, but I would watch his later movies.

Python Hyena Crash (1996): Dir: David Cronenberg / Cast: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette: Represents the mind when it ceases to function on a normal level. Filmmaker James Spader survives a head on collision. When released from the hospital he encounters the female victim, which leads to heavy sex in what will be linked to a strange fascination with car crashes. Elias Koteas is obsessed with celebrity crashes and stages a James Dean crash. He invites Spader's wife to pose beside a roadside accident to complete his inspiration. Spader readjusts a rear view mirror in a car wash as his wife is raped in the backseat and moans with pleasure. Although extremely disturbing it is among David Cronenberg's more symbolic work, which also includes The Dead Zone and Scanners. Spader is well cast in his descend on mental chaos. Holly Hunter is intriguing as a crash victim although she seems to become less involved in the second half and settles for a lesbian fling in a crash car. Koteas is at best in his delight of the sickening but his final sequence makes little sense. Deborah Kara Unger discovers new passions in road games, which results in a very twisted ending where Spader whispers, "Maybe the next time." Rosanna Arquette wearing leg braces and an appetite for kink. Graphic sex in variation resulting in a fatal crash of the mind. Score: 8 / 10

Danny Blankenship Finally after all these years I watched "Crash" and I must say it was fine it didn't let me down. As watching many David Cronenberg movies you know that they are different and raw and often travel on the edge and show the dark nature of life. With this picture "Crash" it shows just how people can become obsessed with pleasure after near fatal death. Really watching this is like a psycho sexual journey. Anyway James Spader is James Ballard a film director who in his spare time likes having sex with Asian ladies as his wife Catherine(Deborah Kara Unger)is somewhat of a bore to him. Well after James becomes involved in a near fatal car crash the incident leads to a meeting with Dr. Helen Remington(Holly Hunter)and soon the two develop a passion and an erotic attraction it's now a cat and mouse game of car sex and this underground underworld is a culture of raw violence and raw sexual conquest(Note I really enjoyed the scene of Holly in that silk satin sexy purple colored bra!) This film is clearly different as it explores erotic means and sexual ends in a raw and different way from the norm yet it proves and shows that people's attraction and energy is not the norm when involving sex and passion. "Crash" is one cult classic film that stands on it's own.

arminhage After watching Couple of Cronenberg's films I got to the conclusion that probably he wishes to deliver some sort of improved version of Antonioni's nonsense. Generally his movies are within 100 minutes time frame yet the scenes related to the final resolve of his movies are far less, probably 20%. I say improved version not by his genuine intention. He works in Hollywood so he has to deliver something viable for investors with Hollywood mindset. "Crash" does not follow the acceptable Hollywood cliché which has been created for a reason, to make movies dynamic. The screenplay follows the 10% rule which has to offer the hero an opportunity out of his ordinary life but after that its free ride of total nonsense. Too many unnecessary and irrelevant scenes and rather disgusting emphasis on body fetish and pornographic to lure audience, make it erotic enough to follow the nonsense. I am not against pornography as long as it contributes to the final resolve of the movie but to squeeze such scenes into the movie to lure the audience, I find it insulting to the intelligence of the viewer and that is exactly what Cronenberg does. The movie is boring and hard to watch in one piece with lots of whispering hard to hear dialogue so I recommend watching the movie with subtitles although one would lose nothing if miss some of of the dialogue due to poor audio management. On short, the movie is about bunch of accident victims who developed accident and trauma fetish and that's it from start to finish, some grotesque scenes and too much sex, irrelevant sex.