The Lincoln Lawyer
A lawyer of questionable morals, a customer too rich to be honest, entertaining scenario, a staged without dead time: the series B still remains beautiful. What’s good with the thrillers of Michael Connelly, is that if they do not reinvent the wheel, they are mostly extremely well put together. One to make you want to stand during the night, just because the reading, without being exciting, is still very entertaining. Of its kind to be sufficiently well-done to provide real pleasures.
In film, Clint Eastwood had included adapting Blood Work in 2002. By adding his touch (destiny, fate again, always the destination), the venerable had bet correctly on a solid story highlighted by a discreet and effective implementation. If The Lincoln Lawyer , second test for transposition of the universe connellien film by Brad Furman (The Take), tries experience a staging that is both more ambitious and more exploitation, it also respects the mind: a good story, do not neglect it.
Taking office in his car, the Lincoln title, Mick Haller is a lawyer who arranged with his own morality. Petty criminals, junkies in the heart of gold: it is there for all those whom life has left on the side of the road. But when he is approached by Roulet, a wealthy family, to defend the son Louis, who was accused of having beaten a poor girl picked up in a bar, the game is changing.
Manipulation, corruption, alcohol, picture a world without great virtue: the stage is set, implicitly, for a good little thriller families, unpretentious panache but not without either. Staged like a B series of the 70s, multiplying dives, dives and cons and unsettling angles febrile and bathed in a strip-funk and soul sound particularly sexy, The Lincoln Lawyer is certainly not a great film but has the talent to annihilate downtime (despite a few flashbacks and a little heavy) to let us captive on the end of our seats for two hours. Not a small feat and certainly thank Furman Connelly for his story to many braided knots.
In the midst of this coating energetic and pleasing to the eye, the heart of this fantastic story but well done, Matthew McConaughey seems, for the first time in his career or almost solid in his last role. The eye on, complex (or at least more revealing a layer of his character), carnivorous, he interprets what Haller with conviction and charisma. Unfortunately remains at his side two large black dots: minor characters sloppy, too quickly abandoned (especially William H. Macy, made up as Vercingetorix, too much used) and Ryan “bimbo” Philip in the role of his antagonist, so little lit, so empty that a green plant would look like De Niro at his side. Injury, the crime was almost perfect.
