The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

I'm going to be more short today - 1. I don't actually have much to write about "The Lincoln Lawyer" 2. the eternal "time tends to be = 0" lack of "resources" . So, we have a thriller, which is adapted after a book, which book I didn't read, but which I think it's better than the movie ...

Well, it's not a bad movie, but it could have been much better. Because of this, probably the best part is the one which comes directly from the book = the story. We have a divorced lawyer (whose wife works at the attorney's office) who uses a Lincoln as place of work, therefore the title of the movie. This means, more exactly, that all day long he is moving from one place of the town to another dealing with the various clients incarcerated in the various police precincts, or even handling some of them on the road between. One day, he receives an express request from a guy accused of beating badly a call girl. Considering that the guy is the son of a filthy rich business woman, offering a payment which is several tens of times larger than the usual fee, the case is accepted even if all this sudden interest for the "mobile lawyer" sounds a bit suspicious to him. But the accused one has also a story which despite being a bit far fetched sounds plausible initially - more exactly he sustains that he's completely innocent and the girl managed to get beaten beyond recognition by her own free will just to squeeze him from money. From here onwards, if I say more, I'll spoil too much. The movie has two major twists (well .. at least they could've been major ...), and the first comes exactly after what's above (the second is obviously at the end).

I don't have much more to say about the movie. The directing doesn't help to much, the first twist I was saying about could have been less obvious as outcome = to keep you wondering at least for a while more. I'll stay silent and say only that from that point until the end the relationship defendant - accused changes consistently from a normal one. And the reason for that is not only what's easy to guess and you see also in the trailer, namely that the "not guilty" one is not that innocent.

The cast is ok. In the lead role we have Matthew McConaughey, but probably the best part is made by the accused = Ryan Phillipe. Oh, and I shouldn't forget a presence that's always likeable (at least for me :-p) - Marisa Tomei. I don't have anything to say about other aspects as cinematography, editing, sound, etc because each of this is pretty much "plain simple". As a general idea, the impression I was left is that the movie is "too american" = everything solves a bit to "ok" in the end and the story itself, which if you put it on paper (and probably in the book is like that) it's pretty tangled with some more "depth" potential, on screen gets a bit too "easy flowing" without giving you much food for thought.

Rating: 3 out of 5