Without giving too much away, the story is about criminal lawyer Mick Haller who most of the time defends garden-variety criminals. But one day he is asked to defend wealthy playboy Louis Roulet who is accused of brutally beating a prostitute. His parents are real-estate magnates. Roulet insists on his innocence though circumstantial evidence is against it. If he wins the case, a big pay is guaranteed considering how wealthy his parents are.
As he investigates the case, though, he is led to a remote murder case in which he defended a client called Martinez. All circumstantial evidence was against Martinez, so Haller talked Martinez into pleading guilty, because otherwise the case was nine out of ten going to lead to death penalty. Martinez goes to jail, getting life in prison. However, Haller is disturbed when he finds out striking similarities between this case and the case he's handling right now. When Haller shows Martinez a picture of Roulet, he gets agitated. Seeing this, Haller deepens his suspect that Roulet in fact murder the victim in the old closed case, not his former client, Martinez. But bound by client-lawyer confidentiality rules, he cannot tell the police when he learned.
Meanwhile, his investigator Levin, who is a former cop, gets mysteriously killed after leaving Haller a voice message saying he found Martinez' ticket out of jail. The only person who'd be in trouble is Roulet, who doesn't want the old case to be dug up again.
But when the police discovers that Levin was shot with a gun that belongs to Haller, he suddenly becomes a suspect of murdering his own right-hand man. Knowing it was stolen by Roulet when he sneaked into his house using a spare key, which is easily available because of the nature of his parents' business. He is between two horns of dilemma. Professionally Haller is obliged to defend this rascal boy in front of him. But he is also set up by the young boy for a murder case. How is he going to resolve the situation? Will he be able to do it? That you must find out by watching the film. You can watch it with no extra charge if you have Amazon Prime membership.
I was never a big fan of Mathew McConaughey. My only vague memory of him is from The Wolf of Wall Street, in which he plays the role of a little exccentric stock-dealer. But this film really knocked me dead. Now I really want to watch more of his films. I appreciate if you can let me know some real good ones that have him in them.
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