After a puzzling teaser trailer left us scratching our heads and a first full-length trailer that gave us few details as to the film’s actual plot, the new trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor is offering the most cohesive look at the film so far.
From previous material, we know that Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt have ridiculous costumes, Cameron Diaz writhes around on top of a car, and Michael Fassbender is in way, way over his head after making a massive drug deal. This time, we have a lot more to work with, plot-wise. Fassbender, as the eponymous counselor (or Counsellor, as the international trailer calls it), has grown accustomed to a lavish lifestyle with his fiancée, played by Penelope Cruz. But when legal work can’t keep it up, he turns to Bardem on the other side of the border to help him get into the drug business for some quick, hard cash. Easy, right?
Of course, as you’ll see in the trailer below, his totally well-thought-out plan devolves into a violent catastrophe of explosions, bloodshed, and Fassbender tears when the drugs get stolen en route to the trade.
Is it wrong, though, to kind of like the first trailer better (which our own Nathan Adams wrote about here)? It was flashy, absurd almost, and had much more Bardem for your buck. I’m okay with it not revealing much of the plot, either. I know that in a Cormac McCarthy story, the main man has done messed up badly and is going to pay his dues in the bloodiest way possible.
The Counselor is in theaters October 25th.
