Description
Book SynopsisBrought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy.
'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief' – Empire, on the film
A man, unnamed, wants to be rich. So entranced is he by this need, and the desire to impress his fiancée, that he works his contacts to become involved in a high-risk game: drug-smuggling across the US-Mexico border.
His contacts in the cocaine trade are mysterious, corrupt and seductive. They speak of a device called 'the bolito' which, around the neck of its victim, constricts and decapitates. They warn of the Mexican cartels, whose brutality is without mercy.
And so it is, as the action crosses into Mexico, the Counselor's life becomes darker, more violent and more sexually disturbing
Trade Review
No Country for Old Men on a bender -- IndieWire on the film
The real stars of director Ridley Scott's moody, bloody crime thriller The Counselor aren't Fassbender, Bardem, Diaz, Cruz, or Pitt but writer Cormac McCarthy's words -- IGN on the film
Scott and McCarthy have created a film that in less accomplished hands could have slumped into melodrama, but that retains the grim humour, and the granitic implacability, of a classic morality tale -- Total Film on the film
McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief -- Empire on the film
[A] great, misunderstood film -- Esquire on the film
