Review of The Counselor (2013) by De D — 22 Mar 2015
Ridley Scott (â??Gladiatorâ??) tried for years to get a film of American novelist Cormac McCarthyâ??s bleak, brilliant literary western â??Blood Meridianâ?? off the ground; instead, he got to direct this curious drug-war thriller, McCarthyâ??s first original film script.
As consolation prizes go, itâ??s a wooden spoon: a great writerâ??s pompous idea of pulp fiction, treated with stultifying seriousness by everyone else involved.
This review of The Counselor (2013) was written by De D on 22 Mar 2015.
The Counselor has generally received mixed reviews.
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