change lane start with a collision between two car during the new york morning rush hour . neither driver be injure and and neither car sustain serious damage . yet this seemingly trivial happen set in motion a chain of event that will lead to both men commit several crime and up to and include attempted murder . the two driver be and by coincidence and both on their way to court hearing . one be gavin banek and an ambitious young lawyer with a top new york law firm and who be act in an important case involve the administration of a charity set up under the will of one of the firm client . the other be doyle gipson and a divorced father on his way to a hearing concern the custody of his two son . a a result of the collision and gipson arrives late for the hearing only to find that the judge and impatient with wait for him and have award custody to his ex wife and meaning that she be now free to take them to oregon where she intend to live . thing also go badly for banek at his hearing . upon arrival at court he find that he be miss a vital document and realise that he must have accidentally leave it with gipson while the two be exchange name and address . the judge give him until the end of the day to file the document with the court . when banek trace gipson and however and and ask him to return the document and gipson and still angry about the collision and about the outcome of his own court case and refuse . banek thereupon hire a computer expert to hack into gipson computer record and tamper with his credit record and effectively make him bankrupt . he then contact gipson again and inform him what he have do and and tell him that he will restore gipson credit rating in exchange for the missing document . this lead and in effect and to a declaration of all out war between the two and each try to outdo the other in bad behaviour and culminating in gipson try to kill banek by sabotage his car . this film might have be good if it have be make a a black comedy and but the film maker choose instead to make it a a serious human drama . james berardinelli describe it a a statement of how external influence can cause an otherwise decent human be to do thing that be despicable . it do not really work a such and largely because the two protagonist ( and most of the other character a well ) be so unlikeable . despite his attempt to kill banek and we can perhaps regard samuel l. jackson gipson as be a much sin against a sinning . he be and after all and subject to severe provocation and not only from banek and but also from his ex wife valerie and from a bureaucratic court system that seem unwilling to make allowance in his favour and and he do have at least one redeem characteristic in that he be a devoted father to his son . it must be say and however and that many of his problem be self inflict . ( he be and for example and a recover alcoholic and and it be his drinking and and drink fuel violence and which lead to the breakdown of his marriage ) . perhaps the best evaluation of his character come from his alcoholic anonymous sponsor represent you know and booze isn not really your drug of choice anyway . youre addict to chaos . it be and however and more difficult to regard ben affleck banek a an otherwise decent human be . banek work for the sort of law firm which have and to say the very least and a relaxed attitude to legal ethic . although he be not mire in outright criminality quite as deeply a some of his colleague and especially the senior partner stephen delano and who also happen to be his wife father and banek moral standard be nevertheless low . in an attempt at self justification delano ask rhetorically at the end of the day and i do more good than harm . what other standard have i get . this self assessment and however and be not bear out by the plot while the film show u a good deal of the harm that delano have do and no evidence that he have ever do any good . apart from a contrive and implausible end and there be no evidence that banek have ever do any more good than his father in law . when banek be force to confess to his colleague that the vital document have go miss and delano solution be to manufacture a replacement by combine the donor signature from another document with a photocopy . banek object to such forgery on ethical ground and even though his own behaviour towards gipson be just a illegal and could be regard a even more immoral . affleck seem to have a talent for pick the wrong film ( see also reindeer game and pearl harbor and 200 cigarette and several others ) . if he add any more to his collection of turkey he will be able to corner the christmas market . although it garner some critical acclaim and for me change lane fall firmly in the turkey category . it strike me less a a study of two otherwise decent men under pressure than an entirely predictable account of what might happen when an alcoholic chaos addict meet a shyster lawyer . the result be neither edify nor enlighten . 4/10 .