Veronica Mars 2014 PG-13 1h 47m
I must confess that after the series-opening presentation, I never really watched the rest of the series. However, I did watch this movie.
This was probably made to placate the devoted series watchers who found their programs cut off. Many different series either just stop or have a pansy wrap-up for the last episode. If we are lucky, as with "Veronica Mars" (Kristen Bell), we are treated to a full-length movie that tries to incorporate the essence of the series. With “Star Trek”, there was a series of movies. We can only hope so here.
Veronica was a teenage private eye. Now older and supposedly wiser, on the verge of getting a cushy law firm job, she is called back home to help pick a lawyer to defend an old boyfriend. He was accused of murdering one of her old classmates. Naturally, as we would've suspected, she gets sucked into trying to track down the culprit(s) herself. Will she give up the cushy job and her new boyfriend and a new life just to save her old boyfriend and possibly clean up the local law enforcement at the same time?
If you have seen one of these "let’s, find the culprit as the only way to vindicate the suspect" stories, then you have seen most of them. The worth of this particular movie is that it has the formula and the characters that we've all come to identify with within the series. This film also gives hope that there might be a series of films.
See Kristen Bell again as Veronica Mars in the TV series 2004–2019.
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