Within the first 20mins of the movie, the web of characters is placed in one after another.... If this was a tv show, it would be a
sketch show...

 

Whereas 'Crash' (2004) as a television show was really good 'Crash' (2008)

 

but wait they will connect...right?

 

Harrison Ford being huffy about taking out some clothing factor workers

Lizzie Caplan in a Jewish school singing with an Atheist

A Young girl with Ashley Judd, with nobody to adopt her. Sad Times.

Then a girl in High School... the other teens shout abuse at her while she reads a paper on Terroris. Bad Times.

the intro to characters went on a bit more and i got bored..... then Harrison showed back up, I had faith... .til he went away and we moved onto another character straight away..... I should be watching Crash instead...

 

The film at around 2 hours long, took me all night to watch... and not only for a noisy family and other more interesting things going on....

 

Ray Liotta shows up, I like him.... I'm back to a plus... until he sexmails a cute Aussie for a greencard. REALLY BAD TIMES!

I'm getting into it by now, then we switch again. So we are going to be told various peoples stories to do with immigration in america, based on their ethnicity and religion.

Got it... okay. Let me continue. (sw)

 

The young girl is busted in on in her home by the FBI, because of her class paper. Now this I have seen happening on documentaries, I think there was a Louis Theroux documentary on it where he went to a retirement villiage and an old vetiran was investigated by the FBI because the old fella had made a comment to a neighbour about the war, the FBI bothered investigating this old fella for terrorist activities.... really? This isnt where their talents should be focused... and I don't mean they should be investigating Aliens instead.

 

The poor girl is threatened with her whole family being deported because of what she wrote in a class paper on 9/11. Instead she is in a detainment centre and about to be deported by herself, really sad and bad times. Really depressing to watch.

As depressing as that was, Ray's character falling for the nice Aussie actreses was as disturbing.

It took til almost an hour in till I was sucked into the movie.

We almost end on several characters being in the citizenship ceremony, with big flag and national anthem being belted out

 

We see three of the females leaving the USA at the end,


and one little girl getting her home (adopted by Ray Liotta's wife.... or probably ex-wife now)

I liked how the stories eventually mingled and crossed, but not until the last few scenes. I wasnt happy it was a disjointed tale when it started out, seemingly connected by theme rather than character. The diffrences of the characters were not really diffrences after all, they are going through similar situations....