MSusimetsa Despite having such a great cast and director, the movie manages to disappoint with a story that is utterly predictable and offers not a single surprise. I would have hoped for the makers to try to hide even some of what was going to happen, but now it was just a story of a cousellor heading for a train wreck.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Counselor" (2013)Shooting its principal photography between July and October 2012, followed by an extraordinary long post-production period of a year, when director Ridley Scott had been struggling due to his brother Tony Scott's suicide on August 19th 2012 in Los Angeles County with a further dealing relentlessly brutalized screenplay on the criminal condition when a drug-trafficking Texan business man, here given face to out-for-mischief playing actor Brad Pitt, overthrows himself with a perfectly-organized Mexican cartel deal originally-conceived by first-to-be novelist then turning screenwriter Cormac McCarthy, known for writing the thriller-novelty "No Country For Old Men" in 2005, which had been adapted to the screen in Academy-Award-winning efforts by The Coen Brothers in 2007.Title-given leading character, performed by Michael Fassbender, who shares one extraordinary scene in the final third of a 110-Minute-Editorial initiated by R. Scott's long-time collaborating as entrusted editor Pietro Scalia in a simple cross-cut of The Counselor sitting in a car under breeding summer conditions and Mexican cartel "Jefe", portrayed with single-handed efforts by actor Rubén Blades of owning the picture in itself a calmly-received rock of the aftermath due to a monologue of futile revelations, where a just-reacting Michael Fassbender in face of his character's life annihilated must accept the situation of losing properties and control, which director Ridley Scott so masterfully prepared to hit the any matured audience's nerve.Nevertheless this strict thriller only works in a few single scene, especially with actresses innocently-then-spoiled playing Penelope Cruz to ultra-hardshipping character of saving-her-own-skin Malkina, in show-stealing beat performances by Cameron Diaz versus Javier Bardem to lose as character Reiner, when my only wish had been that this potentially full-throttle piece of cinema had been become the suspense-gripping picture; brought to controversial flourishment of pain-stakingl honesty on human behaviors in-debt in greed with its seemingly disturbing subject matter of ending the world as we know it.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

ebelmot Don't waste your time! Pretentious garbage with over the top dialog, a plot full of holes. Garbage!

krocheav Seems most audiences that fell for this one needed a counselor to unravel the mess it left in their heads. For a mainstream movie, they don't come much grubbier than this. I've never understood the regard some folk hold for director Ridley Scott, who proves with this shoddy work how overrated he can be. As for highly esteemed writer Cormac McCarthy - perhaps at 84 it's time to hang up his pen. Character motivation is largely unexplored and the situations bounce from one glib, almost impossible to understand circumstance to the next. The highest ideals for any of these characters run in the order of greed, avarice, booze, drugs and obsessive sexual obscenity of the most perverse nature. Cameron Diaz is beginning to look as ugly as the foul morality she tends to represent, Penelope Cruz basically appears to represent little more than a woman for a bed - shared by Michael Fassbender in an unnecessarily overdone opening section. Brad Pitt's by-the-numbers role is not much more than a station on the way and could have gone to any number of lesser names. Fassbender's ridiculous decision to play for deathly high stakes with merciless drug cartels offering a deal with a 4000 x return rate (yes you read right!) at least it gives him a chance to show some fear- filled remorse - with possibly one of the better performances in this jigsaw puzzle with too many missing pieces. If your most endearing inspirations for living are superficial greed, perverse sexuality, fashion, drugs or how many people you can cruelly murder, then you could find something to identify with here. Otherwise, save your brain and time, find something else to watch and leave this to the criminal element and biker gangs but, even they may prefer to go ridin'.