Morrow supervising sound editor, Steven Ticknor sound effects editors, Martin J. Screenplay, John Romano, based on the novel by Michael Connelly.Ĭamera (color, Deluxe prints), Lukas Ettlin editor, Jeff McEvoy music, Cliff Martinez music supervisors, Brian McNelis, Eric Craig production designer, Charisse Cardenas set designer, Sarah Contant set decorator, Nancy Nye costume designer, Erin Benach sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), Steven A. Executive producers, Eric Reid, David Kern, Bruce Toll. Produced by Kimmel, Richard Wright, Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi. He demonstrates a perfectly competent hand with all of these techniques, but it’s never clear why he’s chosen to employ them, and the shooting style is at times weirdly out of sync with what’s happening in front of the camera.Ī Lionsgate release presented with Lakeshore Entertainment of a Lakeshore Entertainment and Lionsgate production in association with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Stone Village Pictures. It’s also the rare thriller that actually gets more expository as it goes on: At first it assumes the audience is familiar with attorney-client privilege, only to pause later on to explain it in detail, and a late-breaking twist is revealed and then disregarded with almost comical offhandedness.ĭirector Brad Furman (“The Take”) shoots the film with a borderline-hyperreal degree of stylization, using an oversaturated color palette and tossing in ample whip pans and sudden swooping zooms. “The Lincoln Lawyer” betrays some of the classic signs of an overly faithful adaptation, as several characters barely glimpsed in the film are referred to throughout as though the audience is intimately familiar with their peccadilloes and past histories. Gestures toward a romantic subplot arrive in the form of Mick’s prosecuting attorney ex-wife (Marisa Tomei), though she’s given little to do except frequently drive our hero home from the bar. Macy, testing out some curious vocal inflections) unearths evidence that has repercussions for a closed case from Mick’s past. Louis insists he’s being set up by the girl, yet maintains a perplexing insistence that the case go to trial as quickly as possible.Īs expected, things are not what they seem, and Mick’s investigator (William H. Mick’s clientele seems harmless enough - mostly comprised of bikers and good-humored call girls - until a friendly bail bondsman (John Leguizamo) hooks him up with a defendant from a far higher tax bracket: Louis Roulet ( Ryan Phillippe), a Beverly Hills blueblood accused of badly beating a prostitute in an attempted rape and murder. We can assume he’s good-hearted as he’s played by Matthew McConaughey, we know he’s streetwise because his streetwise driver tells us so, and the early scenes paint him as being so rakishly clever that one half expects Elmer Fudd to show up opposite him in court. Keeping his abs tastefully concealed for the first time in recent memory, McConaughey struts through the picture as Los Angeles defense attorney Mick Haller, a smooth talker and hard drinker who does business out of a vintage Lincoln Continental.
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