"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.
Review of The Lincoln Lawyer
