Crash . Tucson Weekly . 03-27-97

Crash

DIRECTED BY: Rolf Clemens

REVIEWED: 03-27-97

A trippy, pointless exercise in style from David Cronenberg, director of Naked Lunch and Videodrome, among others. Crash looks great but delivers little. The story, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard, tracks the adventures of a bored, empty movie producer (James Spader) whose erotic sensibility and sense of physicality are radically altered after he suffers a serious car accident. He's discovered by a subculture of like-minded individuals, headed by a sleazy character named Vaughan (Elias Koteas), who abandon themselves to their "benevolent psychopathology." This basically involves engaging in sexual activity in, around, or after violent car crashes. Like a super-8 porno loop, Crash contains only a rough idea of beginning, middle and end--and there's so much sex that after a while, it just gets boring. The wonderful cast, including Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, is so poorly directed they literally seem to be wandering around aimlessly. Crash received a special jury prize at Cannes "For Originality, For Daring, and For Audacity," but obviously not for intelligence, artistic merit or even entertainment value.

--Stacey Richter

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