Film Review of Changing Lanes
Year: 2002 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Ben Affleck doesn't quite convince me as a top Wall Street lawyer. Questions of right and wrong and absolute right versus a balance of goodness over badness are cursorily tackled, but ultimately dismissed in a rather simplistic way. Affleck has a minor road accident with an insurance salesman. Attempting to resolve it rather abruptly, he sparks off a train of events that lead from bad to worse. Neither character is blameless, and there is ample room for a certain amount of soul-searching that is traditionally absent from American movies, but even this is appearance over substance, for once the audience is hooked on the difficulty of the dilemma it is solved by a white-man-saves-the-world that is worryingly and unintentionally black and white in more ways than one.
Rating: 6/10
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