When this movie starts, its action, CGI and pointless conversation between actors whilst a giant city runs down a smaller one. So why watch any more? I dont know, there too much nerdy 'tech' talk that youll wish there's a 2nd english track on the bluray when it comes out. I couldn't warm to this movie given the director was working on this for so long. If you can survive all the pompas costumes and the like, watch it for another 2 hours and 8 minutes, otherwise, go make some popcorn and enjoy that instead.
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The Counselor
(2013)
What did I miss??
6 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Please be warned, Spoilers below ...... I suppose I'm biased as I always recognised Ridley Scott as a influential Sci-fi director and thought he could try a different genre. Sadly I was mistaken. After 5 minutes, my wife said "Isn't this movie about a lawyer?, not a smut movie", I agreed. What a pointless start to the movie, we found the actors to be out of sorts and spent a great deal of time talking about nothing. The plot, well I thought that was not really written at the time of filming as there wasn't one. The disco ball scene, what was that about? Cheetahs running around???, Diaz's makeup, looked like she was filing a Addam's Family movie. Smuggling drugs in a sewerage truck... really?? So at 47 minutes we pulled the pin and watching something else... Now reading about the modest budget, can see why it bombed in the cinemas... avoid this one...
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