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Satisfaction with Bosch inspired me to check out The Lincoln Lawyer.
Not bad, not great. If I had to summarize it succinctly, I'd say 'decent, but squandered opportunity.'
Having gotten acquainted with Connelly's style, you can see the bones of a 'potboiler' and the performances are fair to good, and there are a TON of stars, relatively [2 Oscar Winners, 2 more nominees, and many many big names]. But the director didn't seem to have an ear for the material. It's too clean when it needs to be tawdry, too dramatic when it needs to be sardonic. It has big budget staging and cinematography on occasion, then it looks like 'made for basic cable' on other occasions. And there's this pervasive sense of 'there has to be huge plot holes, if I cared enough to catalog them.'
That's not to say it's bad, just not living up to its potential. It's decent enough, but could have been great.
I hear they're working on developing it for series. Hope they get some of the Bosch handlers on board when it starts coming to fruition.
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