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Despite great Latin music, athletic dancing, and two gorgeous stars (Vanessa Williams and Puerto Rican pop sensation Chayanne), this movie falls flat.
It is tempting to imagine Crash as if it had been made a generation ago, starring Laurence Harvey and Vanessa Redgrave.
The other story is the love affair between a luckless torch singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a luckless ex-fisherman (David Strathairn), in which the two--through a series of melodramatic contrivances that testify to Sayles' lack of ingenuity as a storyteller--end up together with the singer's brilliant, desperately unhappy daughter (Vanessa Martinez) on a remote island, where they're prey to cold, starvation, and drug smugglers with shotguns.
Newsweek 's Jeff Giles calls it a "hokey tragic romance" and Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman says it "reads like a high school essay--'write the story as if you were Charlotte Brontë.
The call from Ong was received initially by Vanessa Minter and then taken over by Winston Sadler; realizing the urgency of the situation, he pushed an emergency button that simultaneously initiated a tape recording of the call and sent an alarm notifying Nydia Gonzalez, a supervisor, to pick up on the line.