Changing Lanes is the story of two very different people who meet by chance after their cars collide on New York’s F.D.R. Drive as both are headed to court for very different reasons. Ben Affleck plays Gavin Banek, a young hot-shot attorney who’s married to the boss’s daughter, while Samuel L. Jackson portrays Doyle Gipson, an insurance agent and a recovering alcoholic who is desperate to save his marriage and his family.

Banek leaves the scene of the accident, leaving Gipson stranded, but also leaving behind a crucial file, a file that becomes the center-point for the entire movie. Gipson takes the file with him, and then spends the rest of the film using it to torment Banek in various ways.

As the film goes on, we see two very desperate men willing to take drastic steps which they would never have otherwise taken, almost like a twisted and realistic version of Spy vs. Spy. As the two protagonists attack each other, the magnitude of each of their actions towards the other escalates to a somewhat unbelievable level. On top of that, by the time you’re halfway into the movie, it really starts to drag as the games going on between Affleck’s and Jackson’s characters become rather tiring. The movie does start to pick up later on; unfortunately, it ends about three minutes later.