barclayjamesandrew

Orson Oblowitzs movies are fun. They aren't trying to be Citizen Kane. And, Michael Parks is in this!

Seriously, ANY Director who sought out Michael Parks gets my full respect.

Sadly Parks is very much in his twilight days here, but he's still awesome

There was a reason I mentioned Michael Parks outside of him being cool. Parks began his career appearing sometime in the early 60s and via a mix of TV roles and Hollywood movies.

By the late 1960s Michael Parks was starring in his own show 'Then Came Bronson'. For "reasons" he irked a few people and wound up appearing in lots of TV movies and some very cool independent movies, and exploitation movies.

When watching this movie I felt like Orson Oblowitzs had seen those movies, or at least some. Because he weaves a together a really cool exploitation here.

If those kind of films don't do it for you, then you might not enjoy this.

But don't down vote it because it doesn't have a huge budget or because it didn't meet whatever your expectations were.

If you watch it for what it is, and you dig these cool movies, you'll love this.

Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor' is precisely what I'd expect to see from a master of his craft. A finely tuned, lushly shot crime film that has knawly moments but steetches the realms of possibility just enough to keep you smiling.

The stacked cast (too many to mention in fact) are all brilliant in their respective roles. We don't see movies like this much anymore and that's a shame. Movies budged at $35M to $45M weren't considered risky because people used to show up to see them.

Times change. Fair enough. But quality doesn't. Good will always be good.

This was fairly well recieved when it came out. Only retroactively have a more squeamish and faux puritan section of film fans taken a reductionist view of this and many other movies like it. ('Savages', 'Killing Them Softly' spring to mind)

Ignore the Imdb score, ratings on imdb mean nothing. Watch this for yourself and if you get half the fun I did from The Counselor, you'll have had a good time.

Whenever a remake of a popular horror movie is announced there are the usual groans of complaints by staunch horror fans.

I wonder how many of those who enjoyed the thirty year old + original based of the Stephen King book, actually watched this before complaining.

I won't spoil this for anyone who is yet to see this remake, but I will say it is every bit as dark, and perhaps even scarier than the original.

If you haven't seen this, ignore reviews both good and bad and give it a chance.

Ultimately your personal taste is all that matters.

For me, this not only hit all the right notes, but went further into a bleaker conclusion than I saw coming.

It is well worth seeing and a fantastic update and companion piece to the original movie.