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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

March. 18,2011
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7.3
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R
| Drama Thriller Crime
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A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

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Linkshoch
2011/03/18

Wonderful Movie

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Vashirdfel
2011/03/19

Simply A Masterpiece

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StyleSk8r
2011/03/20

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Usamah Harvey
2011/03/21

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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preservedprivacy
2011/03/22

I kid d you not I had actual goosebumps of cringe there were so many ridiculous cliches in this awful adaptation. the cool black dude chauffeur with the cool hat who tells the lawyer 'you would have doen all right in the streets'), the ex wife whose still in love with the Cad lawyer. The best friend who gets killed on the job. But that just for the scenes. the directing is atrocious an we even have a mega back and forth zoom moment like an low budget italian TV 70s movie. the poor acting of many is so beyond wooden you'd think the director hired his college mates. and the dialogues contains pieces like 'so whachagonnadoo, mike?'. absolutely dreadful. Matt MC's and Marisa Tomei's likability cant save this film, nor can William Macy's ever good acting. And how the hell can can Ryan Philippe get any work these days? Pee-wee herman is a more believable actor. Yhemvioe is so bad hit actually made me a bit angry. One you should probably should have pressed the stop button for and regret you didn't for the rest of the day.

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tomsters
2011/03/23

Lots of good acting and directing and dialogue. But to many gaping plot holes.1, he says he got hit on the head and knocked out. but the two men who helped the victim would have testified he was not. that one alone would have found him guilty without a doubt as I'm sure they would have also testified to witnessing the bad guy beating the victim. 2, the other guy in jail for the similar crime would have also testified that this new bad guy was his bad guy too. instant get of of jail free card. but he doesn't use it, instead he freaks out and runs away. total garbage. the script writer was an idiot for using that and everyone letting that stay in the movie is an idiot too. 3, the gun was stolen from the lawyers office, not his home. maybe his home doesn't have cameras, maybe it does. but the office would have and it would have also been easy enough to find on the cameras when the bad guy came into the building on his own when the gun was stolen. also, no reason to believe the bad guy knew any gun was there. made worse when the lawyer doesn't tell the police his gun is stolen. (and yes, that gun could have been linked to him by the old bullets tracing, not the shells, if any bullets have been kept also as it was used in evidence previously as claimed it was still) 4, hard to believe anyone, lawyers included, especially this lawyer, wouldn't have made sure the damaging evidence against his confessed guilty client had made it into the hands of the right people while keeping his hands clean of it. especially after the bad guy made this extra personal by killing his friend. those 4 points brought this otherwise unexceptional typical courtroom drama down from a probably 6.5 or 7 to a 1.to many times movies mistakes are missed or ignored because of all the nice flashy good stuff in between. but if you don't pay attention, you are only fooling yourself. Hollywood, like anyone else, needs to be as accurate as possible to be responsible to the audience. i personally hate it when they mess up history. if censorship should be anywhere, it should be when history is twisted for the sake of being creative.

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edwagreen
2011/03/24

Great crime drama with an excellent Matthew McConaughey portraying a suave lawyer who works out of his car and demands great fees to get the desired results for the defendants.Marisa Tomei's role as his wife is greatly under-stated here. Her part needed to a lot more developed. William H. Macy appears as Matt's investigator, but he soon takes a bullet ending his role in the film.What made the film so good were the many twists and plenty of irony here. While defending a client, Matt discovers his guilt in another crime and the guy comes from a rich family with mother Frances Fisher providing plenty of surprises by film's end.Ethics is a great subject and plot in this very interesting film.

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luke-a-mcgowan
2011/03/25

I wish I had seen this film back in 2011, so that I could herald the dawn of McConaughey's prime like so many of the critics did. Because this is the film that did it for him, and I'm thrilled to see it was a strong start for him.The Lincoln Lawyer is a magnificent moral film, with enough mindgames, suspense and deceit to more than make up for its unremarkable court room scenes. John Romano's screenplay is full of depth and unfolds so beautifully that I couldn't fault a single turn. Brad Furman's direction is very skilled - the last twenty minutes of the film are flawless and so full of tension I was on the edge of my seat. The whole film looks beautiful, with gorgeous cinematography and production design all around.There's nothing to say about McConaughey other than this was a remarkable turn for him (digging his A Time to Kill drama-legal chops out from under his piles of romcom money). The rest of the cast is also excellent - though the film wastes Bryan Cranston - featuring gorgeous performances from Ryan Phillipe, Marisa Tomei, William H. Macey and Michael Pena. Michael Pena confirms his status as one of the most underrated actors in the profession with just a two scene turn as a man who pleaded guilty to a crime just to avoid the death penalty, despite professing his innocence. The way in which Furman juxtaposed Martinez's first scene, where he's almost howling in fear whilst a cool Haller tries to stay detached, with the second, where a shaved and icy Martinez deflects a noticeably upset Haller's attempts to finally hear his story, is truly masterful. Tomei and McConaghey have great chemistry - to the extent that their divorce stops being believable at times, but the script puts just enough conflict there to stop it being an afterthought.I have to dedicate time just to talk about Ryan Philippe in particular. Whatever he is up to in the script he plays convincingly. A wrongly accused rich kid? A desperate son? Or perhaps a cold-blooded serial killer hiding behind the mask of his polite plea for freedom. Phillipe plays them all with incredible conviction, but there is such fluidity to his performance that it doesn't feel clunky or forced. He began to scare me simply by his appearance on the screen. An incredible, Oscar-worthy performance by Phillipe, which makes me sad that this film never got the attentions of the Academy. I can guarantee that there were a few films that year that could have sat out in categories for this film. Alexander Payne could've sat out for Furman, and Max von Sydow for Phillipe. The Ides of March could've missed out for the screenplay here. The Lincoln Lawyer is technically a legal drama, but the courtroom is just a place for this suspenseful, well-acted moral play to unfold. Its the left bookend for a long McConassance, and that should be reason enough to see it.

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