The Counselor (2013)

Who payed the critics

good back-story, and good acting

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

The CounselorThe scrutiny isn't as convoluted or deep as the writers think which just reults into series of disappointment as the audience finds themselves mocking over the hyped or exaggerated version of what the makers think is a game changer. Cormac McCarthy; the writer, has written some moving and effective dialogues or conversations which is unfortunately piled upon by this over thought out plot and undercooked characters. Ridley Scott is not in his A game and shatters expectations by not delivering a single lose thread to hold onto. Michael Fassbender is brilliant in his portrayal but unfortunately isn't supported by any of the cast members despite of having such a great talent like Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Brad Pitt. The Counselor is a feature gone wrong in every possible way that it sometimes is exhaustingly annoying to watch it work so hard on so little for more than 2 hours that may feel like decades.

Critics hated this one because it was talky and plodding...a non-thrilling thriller. But it still has McCarthy going for it. The first hour of dialogue alone was worth the price of admission: dark and poetic and violent. It sucked me in, even if it did not fully deliver from there. The writing and the acting were great, even if the plot was flawed.

One of the most underrated films of 2013. A film with a subtext about the acute world problem. If you look at the film superficially, then everything is just a story similar to the punched films of Gaia Richey, but the lack of voice-over, explaining the audience in the films of Gaia and so not an intricate story. Can make you look at the film under a different "angle," you start to peer at the film, search, then what is invested in it. Although the film looks slightly in what is not finished, it probably happened because of the tragedy in the family of Ridley Scott. This does not cancel out the pros of the picture. If we consider the film as a thriller, then it is necessary to evaluate very relevant musical inserts, forcing the atmosphere "the atmosphere of the approaching train", the excellent game of Javier Bardem and not the bad game of other actors. I regard this film as social in which my attention was drawn to the problem of the value of life in the countries in which people are forced to survive, due to the connivance of the government, and these countries are exploited by the governments of the more developed states, ultimately militants and criminals from less developed countries become a problem Countries "exploiters". In the scene of choosing a stone, the adviser is told about finding faults in the stones, which is the essence of the jewelry business, and about the desire to come into contact with the fate of the stone of the person who chose it. The further actions of the adviser and are shortcomings in the business, in which he falls due to greed and carelessness, he is the drawback that will lead him and all whose people he will drag along with himself to the tragic end. The adviser and his lover are the only living in the center of a monolithic stone system. Do not make a counselor a good deed for your client, thereby creating a flaw in a non-clean deal, things could have been different, but there would be an outcome to others. This question leaves an open conversation at the end of the adviser's film with the head of the cartel, and an illustration of a corpse in a barrel sent Together with drugs. After all, criminals living in the country on the brink of survival, where the government has drug cartels and corruption is flourishing, where they shoot and then look at whom they shot, they think quite differently ...

The best thing about this movie literally is Fassbender's extreme sexiness. The man is a dreamboat and so easy to watch. I try very hard to watch this film and understand and enjoy it but I'm fighting a losing battle. Usually when I see a film more than once I can join together the dots that maybe did not add up the first time around. A prime example of this is Assassins creed I went to see it twice and although I understood most of it the first time anyway it made even more sense the second time round. But I'm sad to say The Counsellor was a whole different kettle of fish. The plot is bleak, the dialogue although clever at times is down right confusing and doesn't explain what is going on properly at all in certain scenes. It's like they are talking in riddles and the plot is hard enough to follow as it is. I like to be challenged at times when watching a movie but this is taking it a bit too far. Characters just pop up and it doesn't explain who they are or what side they are on. It pains me to give a Michael Fassbender movie a negative review because I genuinely love the man & his talent. But this is a difficult watch. Sometimes I'll still stick it on in the background while I do other things because as I say it's worth it for the Fassy eye candy. But as for trying to concentrate on what's happening...I don't think it'll ever happen.