Changing Lanes Review

I was sent home injured from work last Thursday, so I picked up Changing Lanes and Apocolypse Now. I've seen the latter and have always been a fan.

The former, however, is another story. I didn't expect much of the movie, having two actors who slept during the last half of acting school - Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. The beginning made me feel as if there was potential for the movie. After Affleck's character gets pissed at Jackson's and uses his bureacratic influences to threaten Jackson, I felt the movie was going to show the duality of the working man. Both were more than willing to be helpful to one another, but were completely selfish when it came to something each of them needed. One hour and fifteen minutes into the movie I gave up. Affleck's character went from good samaritan to asshole too many times and I had enough. The end was predictable and gave me no sense of moral direction. What could have been a great movie analyzing the concept of morality for two men turned into a long "who-can-one-up-whom" match of revenge. 2.5/5 stars.