"The Lincoln Lawyer" is a reasonably entertaining thriller but it's also extremely far-fetched and really not much of a movie. A good cast work very hard with the cliched material as hot-shot lawyer Matthew McConaughey is hired to defend rich mother's boy Ryan Phillipe on a charge of rape and assault only to find the ghost of a previous case coming back to haunt him. McConaughey works hardest of all, sweating, fretting and generally behaving badly while Phillipe is ice-cool. Marisa Tomei is also in the mix as McConaughey's ex-wife and another lawyer but she's basically wasted, being decorative rather than dramatic. About the best you can say is that it's John Grisham lite.Saturday 14 December 2019
THE LINCOLN LAWYER *
"The Lincoln Lawyer" is a reasonably entertaining thriller but it's also extremely far-fetched and really not much of a movie. A good cast work very hard with the cliched material as hot-shot lawyer Matthew McConaughey is hired to defend rich mother's boy Ryan Phillipe on a charge of rape and assault only to find the ghost of a previous case coming back to haunt him. McConaughey works hardest of all, sweating, fretting and generally behaving badly while Phillipe is ice-cool. Marisa Tomei is also in the mix as McConaughey's ex-wife and another lawyer but she's basically wasted, being decorative rather than dramatic. About the best you can say is that it's John Grisham lite.
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