Director Ridley Scott's upcoming crime thriller The Counselor boasts not only a stellar ensemble cast -- Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, and Brad Pitt -- but also ...

The counselor heeds none of these warnings, and when an unfortunate coincidence lines up with the Cameron Diaz character's ambition ... with the possible exception of the jewelry dealer played ...

So it’s no shocker that “The Counselor” — a thinking person ... Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz — winds up as fatally flawed as one of the Bard’s lead characters.