Film Review – The Counselor

Beloved for novels such as “No Country for Old Men,” “The Road,” and
“All the Pretty Horses,” author Cormac McCarthy becomes a full-fledged
Hollywood player with “The Counselor,” his first original work written
directly for the screen. Teeming with unsavory, duplicitous,
philosophical types that normally populate his books, “The Counselor” is
ripe with McCarthyisms, while director Ridley Scott takes the mission
of adaptation seriously, working to preserve the vagueness and violence
of the effort. It’s a dark film, offering unsettling images and
uncomfortable situations, and it has moments of greatness, just not
enough of them to generate a riveting sit.
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