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The Counselor (Review)

The Counselor (Review)

The Counselor (Review)

Some of Cormac McCarthy’s books have made successful movies (No Country for Old Men, The Road), but this time pens his own screenplay and it’s a talky, tedious mess. Novels can afford to take time to develop characters and, in McCarthy’s case, wax philosophical, but a movie needs some brevity and this one is lacking. Michael Fassbender plays an attorney who gets embroiled in a drug deal, but he’s as confused as the viewer: Who are all these people and what is their relationship to him and the deal? With almost non-stop chatter, you’d think this would be clear, but it’s just a confusing muddle.You’d think director Ridley Scott would know better, but he just adds a stylish edge.

 

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