Everybody's a critic - 'Changing Lanes'

HH 1/2

This is the story of a traffic accident which evolves into day-long road rage. Rich lawyer (Ben Affleck) leaves an important file at an accident which working stiff (Samuel Jackson) retrieves. The file is very critical to a less-than-honorable case the lawyer's firm is in court for. The file is integral to the story but loses its importance as the movie turns into a study of these two men and the different worlds they live in.

It's hard to say which of these guys I liked less. Affleck plays a whiny attorney involved in fraud, and Jackson plays a whiny insurance salesman whose personal life is in the toilet. I would have liked more real hate between the two. They just kept punching each other in the stomach and then apologizing.

The ending is actually good with them coming to grips with their lives and each other.

- Dan Braswell, utility worker