Monday, March 28, 2011

Short Review: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

The only truly commendable aspect of Brad Furman's The Lincoln Lawyer is a wonderfully conceited and sly performance from Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller, a defense attorney and generally okay guy who nevertheless isn't afraid to get dirty and loose with the law as he operates mostly out of his eponymous towncar. 
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Otherwise, this legal thriller, adapted from the 2005 Michael Connelly novel, is airport lounge-rack fodder of the highest order - a deluge of facts and slimy characters and suits that eventually becomes exhausting, like a blistering afternoon stuck out in the sun. 
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Anyone going into this film expecting anything more than your average assemble-the-facts-until-the-truth-gets-out legal pabulum with filtered flashbacks, tattered, bygone relationships and bad-guy-gets-his-comeuppance punctuation, you're fresh out of luck. 
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The spread of supporting players all get their due (I loved seeing Michael Paré and Josh Lucas back in a movie of relative substance), but the biggest comeback is from McConaughey, who, after the spiffy title sequence, immediately erases any and all past romantic, comedic or surfing digressions to make a much-appreciated return to form - it's not his fault this material is so hopelessly stale. [C+]

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