Honestly, it was a pretty good movie all around. The writing was good, the actors were good and seemed to have chemistry together. I especially enjoyed Katie Findlay as Maggie Turner, which was written well as a funny, upbeat main character. There was a lot about this movie to get behind.
However, I just can't get over one aspect of the movie, which apparently doesn't seem to bother anyone else in the reviews. When she is back as a 22 year old and trying to save the library, her and Josh resort to literally stealing papers from a briefcase, copying them, and quickly putting back in order to win the case.
In no way is this remotely legal. It is not behavior to be encouraged. It isn't even that she cheated to win the case... They stole financial documents from the briefcase of the other counterparty while they were playing golf, and then dodged any questions about how they got it, easy as that.
I kept waiting for this unethical strategy to backfire, and we would see that even when you're outing someone else without morals, it does not pay to stoop to having no morals yourself. And yet, that never happened. They win the case, live happily ever after, and rather than feeling guilt at cheating to win her first case, Maggie continues on to get her law degree and opens a social justice center in town.
Moral of the movie: It pays to cheat, and apparently the ends always justify the means. It is too bad, because they could have easily found another way to write this that made the characters easier to cheer for than losing all their morals to save the historical space.
However, I just can't get over one aspect of the movie, which apparently doesn't seem to bother anyone else in the reviews. When she is back as a 22 year old and trying to save the library, her and Josh resort to literally stealing papers from a briefcase, copying them, and quickly putting back in order to win the case.
In no way is this remotely legal. It is not behavior to be encouraged. It isn't even that she cheated to win the case... They stole financial documents from the briefcase of the other counterparty while they were playing golf, and then dodged any questions about how they got it, easy as that.
I kept waiting for this unethical strategy to backfire, and we would see that even when you're outing someone else without morals, it does not pay to stoop to having no morals yourself. And yet, that never happened. They win the case, live happily ever after, and rather than feeling guilt at cheating to win her first case, Maggie continues on to get her law degree and opens a social justice center in town.
Moral of the movie: It pays to cheat, and apparently the ends always justify the means. It is too bad, because they could have easily found another way to write this that made the characters easier to cheer for than losing all their morals to save the historical space.