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The Midnight Sky (2020)
Not worth 1 out of 10
Don't believe anybody who gives this more than 1 out of 10. If you go ahead and bother to watch it you'll regret it. It's the second worst movie I've ever seen, and I've seen more than my fair share of cinematic abortions. If the end of the world is coming it'll be a blessed relief to leave this purgatory behind.
Crash (2004)
Emperor's new clothes syndrome
On the back of all the good reviews I was looking forward to seeing this movie. What a disappointment!
It starts promisingly, with Matt Dillon taking the acting honours, but the movie relentlessly sets up a number of short stories that are all contrived to the point of ridiculousness, with each having a twist at the end. Even worse, the characters criss-cross each other's paths over the course of a day until the whole movie becomes a pretentious bore.
I learnt nothing about the nature of racism from this movie other than the fact that the screenwriter(s) and director manipulated the theme to set up a trite and insubstantial vehicle to make money out of the subject. Every character was shown to have a 'dark' and a 'light' side, like the world is black and white. Wouldn't it be great if racism were that simple?
I think that anyone leaving a comment about this movie should state what their ethnic origin is (I'm white European) so that readers can gauge the balance of reaction to this movie. I suspect that the majority of comments so far have come from shallow white folk who want to believe they understand the racism issue. They understand it as much as I do, but at least I can recognise my own failings and don't pretend that a cheap movie like Crash has any worth outside the world of entertainment.
Shoreditch (2003)
The worst movie I've ever seen!!!
Words fail me. If I could have given it a zero I would! The only other movie I've seen that comes close to it is Ben Elton's Maybe Baby. Some people enjoy watching movies because they're so awful, but I defy anyone to get any form of pleasure from this rubbish! Don't even rent the DVD (if it ever survives onto DVD!).