Review of The Counselor (2013) by Thegodfatherson — 24 Oct 2013

The Counselor will leave many mystified even those who enjoy it. The story envelops rather than unspools, a guttural experience. As Scott stages the confined action, bouncing from location to location like a Pinter play's moving sets, the musical score pulsates with dread.

In one scene, a nameless assailant strings a steel wire across a desert road, intending to slice a speeding biker who will eventually appear. That's the movie in one note: taught, prophetic, and hushed.

We don't have our finger on why this is happening, but we can feel what's coming. We know it's grisly. We can't look away.