As nondescript as its title, Brad Furman's slick legal mystery, adapted from a Michael Connelly novel, plays like an above-average TV pilot until it gets greedy and runs 20 minutes too long, with a few too many endings. The Lincoln refers to the classic Town Car that the lawyer, Mick Haller (a haggard and drawling Matthew McConaughey), uses as a quasi-office as he tools around LA. A somewhat soiled defense attorney who's represented so many guilty clients that he's lost his innocence, Haller develops a conscience of sorts when he takes on the case of spoiled rich boy Louis Roulet (Ryan Philippe, acting spoiled and rich), who's charged with assaulting a prostitute, and whom we immediately suspect because he uses the word "faggot." Drawn into a Chinatown-like morass without a Robert Towne or a Roman Polanski to guide him, Haller is nearly bailed out by crusty supporting characters played by William H. Macy and John Leguizamo.
