"The Counselor" starring Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz is being ripped apart by both moviegoers and film critics alike.
The movie is about a respected lawyer (Michael Fassbender) getting involved in an illegal business deal that quickly spirals out of control.
Critics are bashing the film, calling it waste of an "A-List" cast as the plot nor the acting is enough to save "The Counselor."Check out what the reviewers had to say about the film.
The Bad: The Washington Post calls out the film's lack of "toughness"
"'The Counselor' treats viewers to at least two baroquely staged beheadings and countless courtly disquisitions on morality, mortality, regret and heaven knows what else. It's an actor's paradise, all this poetic, run-on musing, but it results in a movie that, despite its strenuous efforts to appear hardened and sexy and sleek, is unforgivably phony, talky and dull."
The Worse: The Los Angeles Times says the film is a bleak "waste of talent"
"A key difficulty is that this plot is so predetermined there is little point in seeing it through to the end. Both the counselor and his girlfriend, Laura (Cruz), are so bleakly fated from frame one to have the most awful things happen to them they might as well have "helpless victims" written on their sleeves.
"Another problem is that McCarthy's famously enigmatic dialogue turns out to work better on the page than on the screen. Hearing lines such as "truth has no temperature" and "grief transcends value" spoken by flesh-and-blood individuals makes the words sound hollow, stilted and theatrical."
The Audience: RottonTomatoes.com users certified the film rotten with a 55 percent approval rating
"An intriguing and entertaining but slightly off drug deal thriller, would've been better with less talk," Alex Christensen wrote.
"Great acting, great cinematography, however, a bit too disjointed to recieve a solid recommendation. I'd say see it on video one rainy afternoon if you don't have too much else going on," Matt Dale wrote.
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