Changing Lanes (Wide Screen) > Reviews

Advantages: Takes You Through All Emotions, Great Directing
Disadvantages: Too Short, Feels Like There is Something Missing

...is exactly what happens in Changing Lanes to Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) and Doyle Gibson (Samuel L. Jackson) after both crashes into each other on the way to important, separate engagements, but the thing is this whole sorry tale could have been avoided with a little bit of kindness. Doyle and Gavin are at two opposite ends of the social economic spectrum. Doyle is a recovering alcoholic who works as an insurance seller, his life is in turmoil after ... Read review

Advantages: Good pace, one of Jackson's best roles for ages
Disadvantages: Can't think of any right now

...sure what to expect from Changing Lanes - from some of the trailers I'd seen, I was half expecting a car-chase movie. I rely on my wife to tell me if it's good in the first place - it's her who subscribes to Empire magazine after all, not me! So off we trolled to our local multiplex yesterday to see it - well it was either that or get roped into a family gathering! What you actually get here is an intelligent story of two "ships" that SHOULD have ... Read review

Advantages: Jackson in quiet revenge mode
Disadvantages: Toni Collette's looks; all to no effect, really

...the foundation fraud. In summary, then, Changing Lanes is dressed as a thriller, it tries to be for some time, then turns to character-driven mush. It's exhausting, and that's no spoiler. ... Read review

Advantages: well made, good acting
Disadvantages: ending could have been different

Changing lane is a film about two people from very different backgrounds. Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) is a high profile and well-connected lawyer, and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) is a nervous recovering alcoholic and a businessman. Both Gavin and Doyle have a very important day ahead of them. Gavin is about to present a power of attorney (which he obtained from a rich dying man who probably was not aware of what he was signing) to the court ... Read review

Advantages: Fast Moving / Strong Cast / Great Performances
Disadvantages: none worth mentioning

"We're all gonna be three little Fonzies - and what was Fonzie?! " -Samuel L. Jackson as "Jules Winnfield" in Pulp Fiction Samuel Jackson (Doyle Gipson) definitely loses his cool in this movie by Director Roger Michell. Ben Affleck plays lawyer Gavin Banek, a slightly corrupt, very un-likeable character who is rushing to the courthouse on Good Friday in order to present some very important files. These files, as we find out later, are actually ... Read review

Advantages: Acting at it's best
Disadvantages: Paceing at it's worst

"Sometimes God just likes to put two guys in a paper bag and just let 'em rip!" Director: Roger Mitchell Ben Affleck .... Gavin Banek Samuel L. Jackson .... Doyle Gipson Kim Staunton .... Valerie Gipson Toni Collette .... Michelle Sydney Pollack .... Stephen Delano When lawyer Gavin Banek collides with insurance salesman Doyle Gipson on the freeway, both men embark on a day of turmoil. By leaving the scene of the accident Banek not ... Read review

Advantages: A rock-solid story line, promises to keep you fascinated / interested throughout
Disadvantages: Morality versus Immorality, both chucked in but neither wins?

This story tells of 2 men who reach a crucial point in their lives, they are totally unknown to each other, yet their broken up lives (though they both are "socially functional") seem almost uncannily similar, yet so different in many respects. The finer things in life, which have eluded them thus far on an emotional scale, are about to be aired out in public, hung out to dry like dirty laundry, when these two men collide in a car accident, both ... Read review

Advantages: Plenty to think about.
Disadvantages: Changed to a 'moral' story towards the end.

This film revolves around a single day in the life of two people: The first is Gavin Banek - played by Ben Affleck. A hot shot lawyer about to settle the deal of a lifetime for his firm. The second is Doyle Gipson - played by Samuel L. Jackson. A father of two with all of the problems in the world. The start of the day sees them crashing into eachother as one of them attemptsd to change lanes to get of the interstate. In the arguments about ... Read review