Changing Lanes: Critic Reviews

It's a bit contrived, but this is a strongly acted two-hander...

A thrilling ride but also a thoughtful one, it's a movie that does manage to do more good than bad by the end of the day.

In addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat, Changing Lanes is also a film of freshness, imagination and insight.

Combines a knack for storytelling with a rare instinct for exploring ideas within the framework of a major, star-driven Hollywood movie.

Emotionally violent thriller for mature teens.

"Changing Lanes" asks how far we'd go not to lose what's ours, but it's a morality play with hope for detente rather than any destructive force. Gavin and Doyle are two severely flawed men whose best intentions are knocked about by their worst impulses.

Evitando o maniqueismo, o roteiro cria dois personagens complexos e ambiguos ao mesmo tempo que recheia a narrativa com dialogos bem construidos e instigantes.

turns into a much more thought-provoking movie than you might otherwise expect

Themes about corporate ethics, greed, corruption and our vulnerability in the face of determined evil have a Falling Down finality that is weakened by unconvincing character arcs.

One of the most impressive movies of the year; taut and compelling.

A slickly shot, intelligent thriller, it's buoyed up by an exceptional performance from Jackson, who brings crumpled dignity and pathos to his habitual loser.

Michell is willing to explore a drama that has no heroes, just broken men trying to find some hope in the darkness, some meaning in the madness.

... An extraordinary film with a level of moral complexity and attention to detail that are rare today ...

How often do you go to a Hollywood movie and still find yourself thinking about it on the way to work the next day?

Changing Lanes is a good movie built on a dumb premise. But it's a good movie all the same.

Despite its strong start with a plausible situation gone disastrously wrong, Changing Lanes lectures audiences and devolves into the corniest of melodramas--there's nothing subtle about it.

While Roger Michell's film does indeed take a bad detour in its home stretch, it is on the whole a brisk and absorbing morality play.

Inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out, but it's not that, it's the tension that keeps you in your seat. Affleck and Jackson are good sparring partners.

Fantastic!

Dog-eat-dog urban drama has great script, direction -- and unexpectedly smart performances from Affleck and Jackson.

The pleasure of watching Affleck forcibly relieved of his security and complacency will be relished by anyone who enjoyed seeing Cary Grant sullying his suit in North by Northwest...

One of the best films I have ever seen, constantly pulling the rug from underneath us, seeing things from new sides, plunging deeper, getting more intense.

An interesting idea, though Affleck is miscast -- watchable, but it could have been a lot darker.

'Si el filme hubiera terminado 10 o 15 minutos antes, hubiera sido una dura critica a la amoral y desquiciante sociedad, pero solamente se queda en un buen filme, entretenido y bien actuado.'

Pese a sus pequenos huecos, Changing Lanes es una grata, gratisima sorpresa