“The Counselor” is a movie I’ve been pumped up for since we
first heard that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy delivered a
screenplay instead of the new novel that his agents and publishers expected.
Add director Ridley Scott (“Alien”) to the equation, and an insane cast of top
tier, A-list celebrities, and you start to understand the excitement. Weirdly,
there’s been almost no buzz leading up to the release. It didn’t play at any of
the recent big name festivals, press screenings were all late so enough that no
one has been talking about it, and why the hell does Cameron Diaz have a
cheetah in all the trailers? Unfortunately, the movie falls way, way short of
expectations. Roughly one-third is the precise movie I hoped for, while the
rest is a complete and total disappointment.
