It is enjoyable enough in its own right, with solid performances and satisfying brutality. It delivers basically what it needed to.

Good acting and intriguing themes are done in by weak plotting and the screenplay’s inability to get its points across effectively.

In place of intrigue, the first third consists of pointless scenes of McCall driving for Lyft and a couple instances of him sticking up for

Roman J. Israel, Esq. is mainly a character study and when, as a viewer, I am unable to truly understand the main character’s ambitions and