Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Floated2 Changing Lanes stars Ben Afflect and Samuel L. Jackson in a more so tiresome thriller with very little left yet explained. In one corner there's Gavin Banek (Affleck), an insensitive, 29-year-old Wall Street attorney who's married to the boss's daughter (Amanda Peet), already is a partner in a major law firm In the other corner is Doyle Gipson (Jackson), an older, recovering alcoholic who works in an insurance-selling sweatshop for low wages, and is desperately trying to remake his life so he can keep his wife and two young boys from leaving him. One stressful day the pair run into each other while, yes, changing lanes on the FDR Expressway. Late for court, Gavin brushes Doyle off, and leaves him stranded at the scene of the accident, preventing him from making the court appearance that might have saved his family.The film does not take much nor does it add anything new. A lot of it seems much as if it is filler time or time to pass upon film. It's relativity short but feels lengthy- which isn't good in this case. In the end it just suffers from boredom. However the film did receive great reviews and made some money, it is not what some may expect.

Amityville15 A lawyer and a businessman are involved in a crash on a busy motorway in which the business man crashes his car so that it is out of use and the lawyer is in a rush so leaves him stranded on the motorway. What the lawyer doesn't know is that the business man was on his way to court to fight for his rights to see his children and stop them moving half way around the world. On the motorway the lawyer left the file that contains huge evidence for a court case. The two are engaged in a battle to get what they want.This film starred: Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck & Toni Collette.Changing Lanes was released in 2002. In my opinion this is a decent film but had potential to be better. However in this film Ben Affleck was amazing in this film. He is one of the best actors in the film business. Samuel L. Jackson was good but I will remember this film for the acting performance from Ben Affleck. I do recommend this film because it has good actor performances and a good plot with decent execution.***/***** Could be worse.

jacabiya Anyone with knowledge of courts and the law will find the initial plot device absurd. If the original power of appointment was such an important and irreplaceable document, the firm partners should have had Atty. Gavin Banek go to court to file the document escorted with security guards. More realistically, they would have filed a motion with a certified copy of the document, and later file the original if necessary. That Gavin, knowing the document was irreplaceable nonetheless brings it out of the car to be inadvertently dropped is also quite silly. The other nonsense is that Gavin had to be on time at the hearing, or else, even after suffering the traffic accident. Having Gavin do other things on such a precarious day, like interview job candidates, makes no sense. That Gavin is one of the partners son-in-law further piles on the absurdity.Meanwhile, Doyle Gibson, while no lawyer, does some very stupid things of his own, like not cashing on the opportunity and picking up a computer in a bank and throwing it down to the floor (with no consequences). Later Gavin very tensely confronts the same officer, who seemingly not having learned his lesson, continues to behave like a jerk. I was expecting Gavin to throw down to the floor his newly installed computer too.Then we have Master Hacker, who can with just a name enter a man's banking and credit accounts and delete them all and declare him bankrupt, and later undo all these things, all in just minutes. He is a useful, convenient but totally unreal device. Why use him instead of hiring some goons to force Doyle to return the document, well, I guess the reason was that Gavin did not know any goons, only Master Hacker.Gavin gets panicky and activates the sprinklers in the office in order to access a file. Water flows in buckets for minutes while people are forced to evacuate and firemen rush in. Gavin returns later in the evening and the office seems OK, no signs of the deluge. Hell, even one of the interview boys is still around.Why then the 5 stars you may ask? The film seemed good intended. And contrary to others, I liked the denouement. A lot.

srlf To me, this movie was a depiction of the tension between the needs of the ego of the immature person and the needs of a person to follow their bliss and serve more than the ego as one becomes a true adult. The scene in front of the painting where Gavin Banek describes the girl at the beach is a description of a person wrenched between the "house' they have spent their life building and the call TODAY to the life you were meant to live: "It's like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a pretty girl standing next to you, and you know that if you just asked her your name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week… she comes back to you. It's the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl." Gavin (and Doyle?) finds the "edge" that everyone should find, where you find a way to use your talents in service of your calling. Unfortunately, usually first it involves the fall. Then, comes the lane change. I loved the acting and directing as well.