More than "Crash," this film sacrifices realism to forced plot mechanics.

There were some very clunky plot mechanics, and a lot of it felt very cliched to me.

The plot mechanics have changed slightly as well.

Such length isn't necessary, and it hurts Martin's prose and his plot mechanics.

The plot mechanics are a bit awkward, flitting from one story to another and, not infrequently, simply abandoning characters.

It exposes its plot mechanics so that, in a self-reflexive, post-modernist twist, the manipulation itself becomes the plot.

The plot mechanics can be as dizzying as the characters.

The plot mechanics in which Lewis escapes and is recaptured, and visitors unexpectedly drop in at the kidnap site, are clumsily executed.

Better to show people we care about facing facts they care desperately about, without the consolation of plot mechanics".

In a work of this sort, in which no one rings remotely true, you have to hope the playwright is a brilliant plot mechanic or linguistic stylist.