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“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.”