adapt jg ballard novel might have seem like a good idea to a director as provocative a david cronenberg and but if any book scream un film able and it crash . it may be filthy and but it also extremely boring and which be especially dishearten consider the fact that at least two of cronenberg earlier film the brood and the fly be masterpiece of modern horror . crash feature a typically dull james spader get entangle with a group of car crash fetishist and have sex with various people include holly hunter and a hobbling roseanna arquette . ballard book be devoid of narrative and cronenberg make the mistake of try to instill one . he not successful and unfortunately crash be crap .