Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Fresh and Exciting

best movie i've ever seen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Don't waste your time! Pretentious garbage with over the top dialog, a plot full of holes. Garbage!

Just an awful piece of film making with a really great cast and a terrible plat

Ridely Scott's film 'The Counsellor' tells the story of a formerly straight lawyer who decides to carry out a drug deal, which (predictably) goes wrong. But this is not a conventional action film, except for brief excerpts: in the main, it consists of its very cool characters having highly stylised conversations (typified by the fact that the hero is only ever referred to eponymously as "Counsellor") about action that is mostly occurring off screen. Or, as Mark Kermode put it, reviewing for the Guardian, "an A-list cast speaks B-movie dialogue with C-grade effects", playing "the kind of philosophising drug-dealers that even Tarantino would stay clear of". And while this is harsh, it's not altogether untrue. The rhythms of this movie do grow on you over time; but it's simply not as clever as it thinks it is.

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.