Rating of
2/4
"The Counselor" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/15/17
An affluent and otherwise respectable lawyer falls in with some wheeler dealers of the criminal underworld and unwisely decides to do business with a South American drug cartel. With a script written by Cormac McCarthy, direction from Ridley Scott and a cast that boasts Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, you know you're in for a treat. Or so you'd think. The plot on offer is like a grindingly workanlike rehash of an episode of Breaking Bad and populated by singularly uninteresting characters spouting pretentious waffle and occasionally engaging in passionless and robotic sex scenes - in fact Cameron Diaz enjoying the carnal knowledge of a sports car (I kid you not) is cringeworthy on a Gigli-esque scale. Extremely slick and impossible to care about, the biggest mystery of this thrill-free thriller is how such a dazzling pool of talent could produce something so astonishingly mediocre.
