Netflix Just Added A Severely Underrated Matthew McConaughey Movie

We all love it when Netflix drops an exciting new original film, but finding older, overlooked gems in their catalog can be just as satisfying. In that spirit, we'd like to inform you that Netflix recently added one chronically underrated Matthew McConaughey flick from 2011 that you would be remiss not to check out.

The Lincoln Lawyer is a classic courtroom drama adapted from the novel of the same name by popular thriller writer Michael Connelly. Connelly is the king of pot-boiler fiction, and his 2005 book transfers well to the screen.

The film stars McConaughey as a trial attorney named Mickey Haller, a character that will be familiar to fans of Connelly's writing. The Lincoln Lawyer novel is the first of five in a series featuring Haller that concluded in 2013 with the publication of The Gods of Guilt.

The film, like the series, has nothing to do with the capital of Nebraska, nor the 16th President of the United States. Instead, the title refers to Haller's propensity for working out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car instead of a standard legal office. McConaughey has been raking in commercial bucks hawking Lincoln automobiles for the better part of a decade now, so he likely felt right at home in the role.

"I can respect that."

According to Connelly canon, Mickey Haller is the paternal half-brother of Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, another popular character who made the successful transition to screen on the Amazon Prime original series Bosch, though Titus Welliver's Bosch does not appear in The Lincoln Lawyer.

Joining McConaughey in The Lincoln Lawyer is a full cast of A-list talent, including Marisa Tomei as Haller's ex-wife Margaret McPherson, Ryan Phillippe as nightmare client Louis Ross Roulet, John Leguizamo as Val Valenzuela, Michael Peña as Jesus Martinez, William H. Macy as Frank Levin, and Bryan Cranston as Detective Lankford.

The plot of the film hews pretty closely to its source material. Louis Roulet, the son of a wealthy Los Angeles businesswoman, hires Haller to defend him in a pending assault case. Ever the champion of the accused, Haller takes the job, and soon discovers that the details of the case parallel one of his former cases that ended poorly. As The Lincoln Lawyer dives deeper into the details, he realizes that these parallels may be more than mere coincidence, a condition that places him in an ethical bind.

Roulet proves to be a thoroughly detestable character, played to loathsome perfection by Ryan Phillippe [FIH-lih-pee] at his smarmiest. The playboy son of a Beverly Hills real estate magnate, Roulet stands accused of brutally assaulting Regina Campo, a prostitute Roulet had contracted for services. Roulet insists upon his innocence, and even concocts a convoluted story about how he must have been set up. After Haller and his chief investigator, Frank Levin, get into the evidence, however, they learn the truth of Roulet's history. Keep watching the video to see that Netflix just added a severely underrated Matthew McConaughey movie!

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