After he finds $2 million in the desert where a drug deal has apparently gone wrong, working man Llewelyn Moss finds himself on the run. His pursuer is Anton Chigurh, an unemotional killer with a unique murder weapon at his disposal. Throughout, soon to be retired Sheriff Ed Tom Bell attempts to convince Moss, mostly through his wife Carla Jean, that he should turn the money over to the authoriti... es or this could all end in tragedy.
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Totally over-hyped!
The acting is fantastic, and the film is nicely shot. However, the storyline is very slow moving, interrupted only by the occasional action scenes and some very strong violence. There were loud gasps and laughter of disappointment at the end of the film as many in the ('selected preview') audience clearly felt that the film ended without the story coming to a point.
With No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers drop the mask. They've put violence on screen before, lots of it, but not like this. Not anything like this.
The story of stolen drug money and the horrific carnage it precipitates, No Country for Old Men doesn't celebrate or smile at violence, it despairs of it, despairs of its randomness, pervasiveness, its inescapable nature, of the way it eats at the soul of society and the individuals in it.
An intense, nihilistic thriller as well as a model of implacable storytelling, this is a film you can't stop watching even though you very much wish you could. That's because No Country escorts you t...
Mesmerising thriller that see,s the Coen brothers back on top form
It’s good to see the Coen brothers dealing with material they are comfortable with after the mis-step that was “The Ladykillers” Here they adapt Cormac McCarthy’s novel and it brings to mind two of their real triumphs -”Blood Simple “ And “Fargo” in that they are stripped down thrillers .Like “Blood Simple” this is set in a small Texan town and like “Fargo” it has one character as it’s moral centre , wondering what the hell the world is coming to as chaos and death swirl around him.
Its 1980 and Vietnam vet Llewellyn Moss ( Josh Brolin) is out hunting in the Texan desert when he comes across the scene of a drugs dea...
didn't like it the first time around(why you say, i dont know it happens some times), but i frickin loved it the 2nd time around. awesome fucking film(what the hell was i watching the 1st time around)javier bardem's acting is untouchable. javier's character is now in the likes of hopkins(hannibal lecter) and nicholson's(jack torrance) psycho killers. 3 1/2 of 4 stars excellent.
This is, rarely for the Coens, an adaptation and the ending is completely faithful to the one in the book. A lot of people are critical of the ending, and that's understandable, but really it summed up what the movie was trying to say. Jones's narration is leading up to it from the start, [SPOILER]
the world is full of people who do terrible things, and many just walk away from them. That's life, people don't always get their comeuppance. I think the realism and the fact that it didn't have your standard predictable 'showdown' ending is partly what earnt it so many accolades.
Javier Bardem is just an inspired piece of casting. Thoroughly deserved his Oscar for an incredible and genuinely unnerving performance.
Perfect. A well-crafted piece of Americana. This film certainly isn't for everyone but if you like Pulp Fiction or Fargo, you gotta see it. 10/10-no question.
This film built up suspense really well, the characters were the main reason for this. The villian was very scary, he kind of reminded me of the Terminator, nothing was going to stop him. I was a bit disapointed with the ending though. It felt like it was a bit lazy, however that is the Coen brothers way of doing it. Very good film, i would probably watch it again. 4/5
The best villain to emerge in recent memory. A less sophisticated but equally disturbed sado masochistic Hannibal. Slow but deliberate and great acting. "Call it in the air.Heads or tails" . That concept is simple yet very sinister. Must see!!
