Changing Lanes (Roger Michell, 2002)

A chance traffic collision between Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson turns both of their lives upside down in the space of twenty-four hours as a dispute over the incident escalates into a destructive feud. This is fuelled no end by the fact that they are, of course, chalk and cheese: the former an arrogant and wealthy attorney, the latter a recovering alcoholic trying to keep custody of his children. Setting aside the oversimplification of the dynamic between them that these polar roles create, it works well enough as tense conflict drama, all the way through to a thorough cop-out of an ending where it badly fails to uphold its prior convictions.

5/10