The Counselor

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Chris S @Janomi Jul 19 The Counselor is extremely disappointing, especially with this much talent involved. Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, and Brad Pitt should make the movie gripping, and there is some interest in watching actors this good take on such strange, heavy material. Javier Bardem is one of the few performers who gives the film real personality. Reiner is bizarre, flashy, nervous, and oddly funny, and Bardem cuts through the stiffness better than anyone else. Ridley Scott also gives the movie a cold, polished look, creating a world that feels cruel, dangerous, and unforgiving. The biggest problem is the dialogue. Almost every conversation sounds like a philosophical speech about death, greed, sex, evil, or fate, and the characters rarely feel like real people. The movie wants to be a ruthless morality tale, but it is too emotionally distant to land. A few bright spots aside, it feels slow, pretentious, unpleasant, and lifeless. See more Ale F @RT21213957 Jul 17 Bad, bad, bad film. The dialogue is lengthy and pompous, dressed up as philosophy to trick people into thinking they’re hearing something intelligent, when really they’re just being force-fed verbal diarrhoea. Unfortunately, there isn’t much else besides the dialogue, and the plot is almost embarrassingly thin. A real waste of great actors. See more Chris S @Chris850 Jul 9 Just set your expectations before you watch this, I was halfway through and still had no idea what was going on, other than a lawyer works for a drug dealer. That said, the acting is superb and the cinematography is worth watching alone. No cringe situations either. It’s worth watching if you’re on the fence. If you can handle that there really isn’t any story here, you will be fine. See more Absolute Slop T @AbsoluteSlop Jul 5 Was this an experiment to see if a star filled cast could save a director and script? I don't even know what this was about. It's like a movie Martin Scorsese started and finished writing while taking a short crap. And Brad Pitt is not a good actor. See more TheChefCesar Y @RT28640343 May 17 A waste of time movie , I was very surprised Brad Pitt accepted the role for this horrible movie . Usually he is in very good movies . I want my 1.57 hrs back . See more D. Evan S @RT61196511 Apr 5 I'm always surprised when I see RT's low rating for this movie. Perhaps a philosophical movie centered on a train wreck happening in slow motion eludes the common palate. I find the movie haunting, a cautionary tale of hubris, of arrogance, greed, lust - when reality exceeds one's delusions of self, of the unrelenting lack of pity the universe extracts from all those, who are even unknowingly, in the path of rapacious predators. See more Read all reviews

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