THE LINCOLN LAWYER: a highly polished turd

2011's THE LINCOLN LAWYER is a bright, shiny, glossy and completely hollow viewing experience.
This is not a film, it's a product devoid of a heart or soul or any other organ vital for sustaining life.

Sure it's packed with stars - Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H.Macy, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo - but they're not exactly red hot A-listers and none of them display much more than the very faintest traces of conviction in their performance. Everyone here is on autopilot, going through the motions in a story that plays like a cut-rate John Grisham courtroom drama.
McConaughey is Mick Haller, a slick LA lawyer who runs his business out of the back of his Lincoln town car. He specialises in representing different clients at different courthouses all across the city on the same day which would suggest none of them gets his full attention, but that doesn't appear to have dented his reputation as an effective legal counsel.
When he's hired by a wealthy young realtor (Phillippe) accused of beating a prostitute almost to death he has visions of a big payday, but the deeper into the case he digs the more connections he makes with one of his previous cases where he unsuccessfully represented a poor Hispanic man charged with a very similar crime.
Not only are none of the cast able to breathe any credible life into their characters, but the story they're trying to tell is shallow, superficial and laden with plot twists that you will see coming.
The only real surprise here is that I was able to care less about what happened than the cast were.