Before the days of the television show there was the TV movie. ''Matlock'' 2 hour long film. And it kind of doesn't work. Nobody has any clue what to do.
Matlock's daughters (Charlene Matlock) is the real star of this movie. She's the one that goes around doing the investigating, she's the one who takes the risks and almost gets killed by the supposed murderer and she's the one that really puts the evidence forward.
All Matlock does is keep the courtroom at Bay and stops the prosecution from ruling Murder One on his client. Really this shouldn't be a problem. The police booked the suspect on suspicion of murder one after finding a firearm that was used on the woman (who has been murdered) in his car.
What they failed to mention is that his car was searched illegally without a permit. Thus making the evidence completely useless.
I think this would have made for a better story if at the end Matlock had told he's client that if he had used his brain and simply pointed out this error made by the police he wouldn't have had to pay Matlock $100,000 (half of the money coming out of investment bonds) to rule on his case.
Now as entertainment goes it's okay. It's fun to watch Matlock in the courtroom manipulate a situation to suit his own needs and it's always fun to see him socialising with his client and or his business associates. But the actual murder case wasn't that captivating and as I stated earlier with the police evidence it was kind of pointless.
Also the defendant was this really annoying guy with a horrible beard who deserve to go to jail regardless. He was just one of those trashy human beings that you don't care about.
I often wonder if he was an ancestor to Riker from the Star Trek series. They don't look that similar but their eyes and eventual facial hair match up really well. And I like to imagine that Star Trek in that lock exist in the same universe.
The TV movie is also a bit grim and its music cues give it this dark undertone that's not appropriate for the Matlock series.
If anything it's nice to see Kene Holliday still.
As he was only in the first three seasons of the show. He doesn't get too much to do here, he gets one fun momet where he beats the crap out of some redneck cowboy and he has a kind of comedic moment when he talks to some weirdo weatherman who knows a bunch of things for some reason.
There's this weird sub plot involving a whistleblower who wants to give information directly to Matlock's client but he can't get involved in defending it Matlock's client because of his own personal secrecy. And the whole thing had this Deepthroat vibe to it. Once again I would have preferred if the story it just focused on that.
There's one other thing that always irks me when I watch this show. And it's not the shows fault or anyone else for that matter. It's simply the fault of the state of Georgia. Every time you're in the courtroom you'll see their state flag in the background. And because this show came out before 2003 they had that stupid Confederate symbol on it. And it always takes me out of the show because I think to myself; ''That piece of crap propaganda that was stuck on there because some jackass decided to use the Red Scare to push some ill-advised Confederate agenda that didn't make any sense with the state at that time. And now people get upset about the flag not looking like this anymore and claiming that it was removing their cultural heritage all forgetting that the stupid Confederate symbol was only put on the flag of Georgia in 55.
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