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The Lincoln Lawyer – Movie Trailer
Mar 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Matthew McConaughey stars in this legal thriller as a low-rent defense attorney named Mickey Haller. Most of the time, Mickey barely keeps his head above water, representing low-life clients and working out of the back of his car. He thinks he’s landed the case of a lifetime when he’s hired to defend a rich playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who stands accused of rape and attempted murder, and eagerly accepts his new client and the massive payoff that’s sure to come with him. But Mickey soon discovers that he’s become ensnared in a twisted plot where no fee in the world is high enough to pay for the deadly workload, and his only hope of survival may just lay in his own skills as a long-practiced double-crosser.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” Surprise Endings
Mar 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Surprise Endings”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE LINCOLN LAWYER stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who works out of the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Lincoln town car.
Earl is Mick’s chauffeur, because Mick lost his driver’s license, but at one point in the movie, Mick tells Earl that he got his license back three month’s earlier.
So, is Mick kind? Vain? Flush with money?
For all we know, Mick might be all three, because at the beginning of the movie, his Lincoln is pulled over by a motorcycle gang whose leader pays Mick $10,000 on top of a previous $5,000 he had paid to get one of the gang’s members out of jail.
The leader of the gang is played by country-music singer Trace Adkins, and the gang will play an important part in the story later in the movie.
And as Mick says, “Rule 1: I get paid, or I don’t work.”
However, the important case of Mick’s that makes up the bulk of the movie is defending a wealthy kid, Louis Roulet, who is accused of assault and attempted rape of a woman he met in a bar.
Mick takes the case even though his investigator, played by William H. Macy, tells Mick that the kid feels “wrong” to him.
Marisa Tomei is also in the movie as Maggie, Mick’s ex-wife who is also a prosecuting attorney. However, Maggie doesn’t have much to do with Mick’s big case, but is more there as someone Mick can go out with at night and they can have a drink together.
So, you can see that Mick has a fairly complicated personal life, and it gets more complicated when the case goes to trial and Mick discovers that his client, Louis, is playing mind games with him.
Louis refuses to take the deal that he is offered by the prosecutor, and everything gets even more interesting when Mick starts playing mind games with Louis after Mick learns some information that might have some bearing on the current case.
At one point you will even ask yourself whose side is Mick on, anyway?
To say that the movie has a surprise ending is an understatement.
THE LINCOLN LAWYER is very entertaining, and it has two surprise endings– no, make that three surprise endings–no, make that four.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Righteous Kill” You Talkin’ to My Little Friend?
Sep 17th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
You Talkin’ to My Little Friend?
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
RIGHTEOUS KILL is a terrific film worth seeing for more reasons than two, and by “two,” of course, I mean Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
These two iconic actors are together again for the first time playing two veteran New York City police detectives named David Fisk and Thomas Cowan, but who go by the nicknames of “Turk” and “Rooster.”
They have been partners for 30 years, they are highly decorated, and as another police detective says about them, there is not an inch of daylight between them.
In fact, as one of them says to the other, “You’re my partner. You’re my role model. What am I going to do without a role model?”
However, before they can retire, Turk and Rooster investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have a connection with a case they solved years ago.
The victim is a suspected criminal whose body was found accompanied by a four-line poem that claims to justify the killing. And then the next thing they know, there are additional killings with additional poems, and they realize that they are looking for a serial killer, someone who is targeting criminals who have managed to escape being punished.
Eventually, Rooster and Turk are forced to team up with two other police detectives, and there is even more than one investigation going on.
Also, when it becomes clear that Turk has connections with most of the victims, the detectives have to face the possibility that the serial killer might actually be a policeman.
Now, don’t get distracted by the distractions, and there are plenty of distractions, just as there is lots of misdirection in the story. Stay focused on the actors and the acting, and pay attention to the details, because there is a terrific turnaround, and even when you think you know what has happened, you can’t imagine what is going to happen next.
In fact, see this wonderful film twice. See it once for the story and then see it a second time just for the acting and the actors. You will be glad you did.
And, of course, while you are watching De Niro and Pacino, you will keep being reminded of the previous films they have starred in.
RIGHTEOUS KILL cries out for someone to say, “You talkin’ to my little friend?”
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”