Penélope Cruz
Cameron Diaz
Javier Bardem
Brad Pitt
The Counselor promises
a whole lot when you start watching. This thriller, with its ensemble cast,
aims to deliver a movie that will both thrill you and leave you filled with
suspense.
On the other
hand, what it actually does is make you feel like the entire 100-plus minutes
you spent watching it were a total waste—and you’ll wish you could take it all
back.
The Counselor is
based on an original screenplay by novelist Cormac McCarthy. It’s Ridley
Scott’s next directorial project after the successful Prometheus (2012)
and is dedicated to Tony Scott (Ridley’s younger brother, who committed
suicide).
Prometheus was
thrilling and filled with suspense—something I bet Ridley Scott was trying to
replicate here. But in the end, the only suspense you’re left with is, “What
convinced you to watch this movie in the first place?”
The Counselor is
about a lawyer (played by Michael Fassbender, who is referred to only as “the
Counselor” throughout the movie) who decides to up his stakes in the
money-making game by diving into drug trafficking.
He meets with
Westray (Brad Pitt), a business associate, to kick off the drug operation.
Westray warns him about the dangers of getting into the drug business, but the
Counselor ignores the warnings, focusing solely on the 4000% profit he stands
to make.
Everything seems
to be going smoothly until Malkina (Cameron Diaz), his friend’s girlfriend,
decides to get in on the deal—without the Counselor’s knowledge. She intercepts
the cocaine shipment and steals it all for herself.
The other drug
cartel involved thinks the Counselor double-crossed them, and now he’s left
with a mountain of problems to deal with.
How it all plays
out is something Ridley Scott wants you to watch and find out for yourself.
The movie does
have some controversial scenes, especially the one where Cameron Diaz has sex
with a car (no, that’s not a typo—she has sex with a Ferrari, not in a
Ferrari). The movie has so many things that were wrong with it, and it is just hard
to find a reason to like the movie.
The acting by
the cast is well done, but the problem is the movie itself just doesn’t suit
them at all.
In conclusion, I’d advise you to go online, find a spoiler for this movie, and read it instead—along with watching the trailers. There’s really no point in seeing this movie at all.
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