Hollywood Hits K-Town: Lincoln Lawyer

Matthew McConaughey, shirt on about oh I don't know 10% of a standard movie staring him? I'd say that's close to accurate. However when I saw the preview for this movie I was very interested to watch it because its not a surfer Rom-com.

McConaughey definitely has made strides in his acting ability or has been in the wrong movies all along because I definitely loved this movie. And as an added bonus the shirt only came off once, for about 2 minutes in a 1 hour 58 minute movie.

Here is the synopsis excerpt from IMDB:

L.A. criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller signs on to defend slick, suave playboy real estate agent Louis Roulet. Roulet has been charged with assault, and his overbearing mother will do anything to clear the son's name. Cost is no issue - Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. Digging into the case, Mickey and P.I. Raul Levin reveal a blacker picture of Roulet's personality and evidence of a sinister past. Another sudden death and new links to a notorious double-homicide, make Mickey question if he's finally in over his head. His pursuit becomes a question of morality and a even a question of his own mortality.

The lawyer has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. What he should have been on the watch for was evil, evil as pure as a flame.

The setting here is the lawyers mobile "office" (back seat of a Lincoln towncar) involving actual events and locations in L.A. This story emerged and grew after author Connelly once met a real-life "back seat" lawyer. 

 

The story line does have one major downfall in there is a huge hole in the plot that doesn't get explained but its definitely really good and worth seeing at some point in my opinion. Don't read next paragraph if you don't want to know.

The whole basis of the movie never would have happened if Ryan Phillippe's character never would have hired McConaughey's. It is never logically explained why he did and if you can overlook that then it makes for an awesome ride. 

I really enjoyed the look into the justice system and how it "works" in real life. I loved the supporting cast of William H. Macy, Francis Fisher, Josh Lucas and  Marisa Tomei.

It does bring into light how corrupt is the justice system? Do Plea bargains really belong in it? Should lawyer-client confidentiality really exist in situations where a repeat murder admits his crime and that an innocent is in jail because of it?

Warning: Language and Violence, one minor Sexual scene.