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Summary: boring movie
Review: I thought this movie was so boring, dont waste your time or money. The plot is weak.
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Summary: Poor movie in development not in plot.
Review: I like the plot, i like the acting and the actors i even like the message that this film delivers but to be honest changing lanes bored me to death considering how i was looking foward to seeing this. It's not that thought provoking movies arent my scene as i'm into many a movie like that it's just changing lanes never seems to end (i even prefer long movies aswell). The story line is easy to grasp just through one listen and is very lucid it's just there seems little development in this film and what development there is is not hard hitting it's subtle and when i say subtle i mean pretty much non exsistant. I love the idea of this movie of how these two strangers meet as if by fate but that is the only high point of this stale film, i dont like to abate films that have this kind of rare plot changing lanes is just poor it's not poor in quality nor is it poor in ability it's just poor in the way it seems to be in a constant state of discretion throughout.
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Summary: Should Have Been Better
Review: This is a great idea for a movie, and much more than a "switchover" story, in which we meet two completely different individuals whose live become intertwined after a car accident. , but Affleck & Jackson are certainly not small names these days, and although I'm sure many people will disagree, do their best to pad out a pretty lame script, one has to say.
This is a story of morals, and certainly trys to deliver a message, after one simple event forces each of the main characters to study, and ultimately reassess their lives. For me this movie however, fell a bit flat - I kept expecting something much more than I saw, and the ending seemed as if the Director had run out of ideas, and had to go with the "off the shelf" crowd pleaser finale. I wouldn't say that this movie was a waste of talent, or particularly bad. It's just true that a book cannot be judged by it's cover, anymore than a movie can be judged by it's cast. A struggle to get to 3 Stars.
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Summary: Collision of character
Review: As the title suggests, drivers change lanes. It this case, it causes a collision, not just physical one, but a couple of moral ones.As is often the case, an instant changes the course of two men's lives. This causes both of them to explore their inner selves to discover who they really are and what it is that they really believe in. Through this discovery, justice is served in the end, Hollywood style! An entertaining film which does get you involved with the struggles of the characters.
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Summary: Choices They Make...
Review: Two different men on two different socio-economic levels end up in a minor car accident where the callous lawyer Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) is in a hurry to a court appearance and feels that he does not have time to fill out insurance papers. Doyle Gibson (Samuel Jackson), a recovering alcoholic and insurance salesman, insists to do the right thing, but is cut off by Gavin with a blank check. At court, Gavin realizes that he lost some power of attorney documents at the scene of the accident and doesn't even know Doyle's name or phone number, since they did not fill out the insurance papers. During this time, Doyle arrives late to a court hearing regarding the custody of his children and therefore loses his case. Both Gavin and Doyle are devastated by what has happened and this is then the beginning on a very long day for the both of them. Changing Lanes is an interesting film in the sense that it addresses issues regarding honesty and ethics from two different perspectives. The film provides a fine film experience that entertains, but also make us wonder about why we are here and what we should do with our current position in society.
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Summary: Changing Lanes
Review: Changing Lanes is about how life can change in a split second. Ben Affleck is a lawyer who collides with Samuel L. Jackson on a busy highway. The collison changes their lives, but they don't realise straight away. Without giving too much away, Changing Lanes is a film that also questions people's general behaviour. Aside from all this, the film is rather predictable and gets a bit dry in the second half. Toni Collette stars as a trusted colleague to Ben Affleck and is the main reason I watched the film - she's a great actress. The film suffers from a happy Hollywood ending which is a shame because it's unlikely that such a situation would have a happy ending in real life. A film that is not worth buying in my opinion. Rent it.
DVD SUMMARY:
Anamorphic transfer, trailer, making of, deleted and extended scenes complete the package.
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Summary: Over rated I don't know why critic's liked it.
Review: 'Changing Lanes' is the worst movie in my DVD collection and the reason why is I was fooled by the great reviews on the cover from many well known critic's and I took a risk. But don't think it's Samuel L. Jackson's or Ben Affleck's fault because it's not it's just because the script wasn't as complex as they tried to make it seem. Hell even the previews are misleading on television because they try not only to make it look like a thriller but a action movie as well. Anyway my point is don't buy the movie and if you like Affleck or Jackson rent it and see it for yourself.
Also for you people who are wondering why I didn't return it? Well because there's a rule that you can't get your money back or get a different DVD, inless there are some damages.
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Summary: Too long.
Review: Summary:
Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) just happen to meet when neither of them can really afford to, because when they do, all hell breaks loose. Gavin is a high-powered attorney on his way to cheat a charity out of millions of dollars. Doyle is an insurance salesman and a recovering alcoholic who is about to lose his children in a custody hearing. When Gavin swerves into Doyle on the freeway while distracted on his cell phone, Doyle tries to do what is right by getting Gavin to exchange insurance information. But Gavin is in such a hurry that instead he simply offers Doyle a blank check. And even though they are headed to the same courthouse Gavin refuses to offer Doyle a ride. As it turns out Gavin leaves the major document in his court case at the scene of the accident where Doyle picks it up. Doyle, not having a ride, rushes to the courthouse but is too late to prevent his wife from gaining complete custody of the kids so she can move out of state and prevent him from seeing them anymore. Gavin, to save his job and prevent himself from going to prison, needs the folder with the documents from Doyle. Doyle is upset with Gavin because if he hadn't run into him or, even then, if Gavin had given him a ride, Doyle wouldn't be loosing his kids. What results is an hour and a half of two men vacillating between trying to kill each other and then trying to help each other for an a very long day. My Comments:
First of all, the acting wasn't atrocious, which to me is surprising seeing as how Ben Affleck is, well, a mediocre actor at best (don't believe me? watch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). And Samuel L. Jackson is typically only good when he is violent, which he does get to do occasionally in this movie; otherwise I don't think he can't really act (don't believe me? watch Star Wars: Episode I). So, the movie was actually surprising in terms of the acting, perhaps because I didn't have very high hopes to begin with. The story idea was actually kind of interesting, but only after they tried to really hurt the other person the first time. After the five millionth time they tried to hurt the other person the movie lost my interest completely. I was continuously staring at the time counter to see how long the movie was going to continue, and it just kept going and going. What's worse, nothing is ever really resolved in a satisfactory way - Gavin is still a crook, but what's worse, he blackmails his bosses who are crooks (making him doubly crooked?). Which leads to the next point, the whole subplot of Gavin finding out that he is a 'dirty' lawyer was pretty [weak]. It was almost as though the director of the movie realized that the main plot was only worth about 50 minutes of screen time so he had to come up with some pretty [weak] subplots to fill up another 40 to 50 minutes. After the movie was over my wife was convinced that she had just lost nearly two hours of time - time that was completely wasted. When I pressed her for what she thought, her first comment was, "Do you really think people would behave that way?" My response, "Well, would we really want to watch a movie where the people were normal?" But, I must admit, the movie was remarkably far-fetched, at least from my perspective. I'm not a New Yorker and I've never been to New York, so perhaps the portrayal of these two New Yorkers as vicious, almost homicidal, maniacs was accurate, but I highly doubt it. Anyway, I think you could possibly enjoy this movie if you watched about the first 30 minutes then about the last ten. The repeated attacks back and forth are tedious, pointless, and tiresome. I don't recommend this movie unless you enjoy road rage.
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Summary: It's all about personal growth, MAAAAAAN
Review: Which is a very American obsession rather like political correctness. As in the white guy has to be a corrupt, privileged lawyer while the black guy is an honest Joe driven to alcoholism by the prejudice of the white man whose keeping him down (see Tiger Woods speech in bar followed by beating. Hey, they had it coming.) The white guy needs enlightening, but he's white, so whose he gonna call? He needs a fortune cookie, but fast. Preferably from a black man whose also an attempted murderer who doesn't care how many other road users he might potentially kill while the lawyer's car is spinning out of control. That sort of fortune cookie. The film delivers quite a few. Such as a black wife is honest and forgiving while a white wife is dishonest and forgiving. Now, I could be wrong, but people who set out to help death row prisoners for little pay are usually ideologically committed from day one rather than having experienced a road to Damascus like conversion on the way to the fish and chip shop. But I could be wrong. I'm white, after all. File under wet file. Which, of course, they wouldn't have noticed after he set off the sprinklers. Probably because the whole office suddenly became miraculously dry and habitable afterwards as if nothing had happened.
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Summary: Good movie
Review: This movie deals with the issue that law cannot solve everything, and in the end it is respect for social order and conscience in each one of us that is important. This is a point very relevant to the current situation of American society, where the law system is trying to do more than it can.
However because this problem is so obvious and simple, a movie solely for presenting it seemed to be too much.
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