2007 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
No Country for Old Men is an allegorical modern western that captures a country in transition, thus commenting on present day society and providing an almost nostalgic analysis of the nature of good and evil and the inescapable stranglehold of fate.
Sticking to most genre rules, only to pull out the rug from underneath you at the very end, No Country for Old Men together with There Will be Blood seem to best represent what the modern Western can be. They are almost polar opposites in how they approach what they try to say, but they're still sides of the same coin.
On a literal level the plot is very straightforward, carried by a host of intriguing characters and can…
Sometimes, the rawest of tension can be created by pure silence. The lack of a main score (or any use of music), the quite dialogue between characters, and the vast, empty landscapes of the desert, all of it makes the short bursts of violence all the more gut wrenching and disturbing.
This is one of the most intense films I've seen in a good while, even though most of the time, not a whole lot happened. Usually you'd get the odd moment of Anton shooting a man or one shoot out, but throughout, the tension comes from the fear and knowledge that something WILL happen and someone MIGHT be getting their head blown off....
And yet, even during these moments,…
This is the first time I’ve re-watched the Coen classic since when it was first out in theatres. After re-watching The Man Who Wasn’t There with our neighbours a few weeks ago, I’ve been hankering to revisit what I consider their darkest film. Where the Coens other dark outings are lined with bone dry ironic humor, No Country for Old Men is all serious business.
The Coen trademark noir-esque elements of misbehaviour and consequences are here, but where nature and circumstance dictate the outcome in their other films, here, nature and circumstance is embodied in a character, Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardem is a force of nature wrapped up in a bad hairdo. The sheer weightiness he brings to Chigurh is…
The Coen Brothers created a monster far more hideous and vile than Frankenstien's monster!
If death had a name it would be Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)! I haven't been this creeped out by a deranged killer since 1991's Silence of the lambs!
The Coen Brothers film didn't take my breath away it choked the life out of me with pure unadulterated good ole fashioned terror!
Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss was easy on the eyes! He was the easy going charismatic good ole boy whose 1 bad decision guaranteed him a dance with the devil! In my opinion this is his most powerful performance to date!
Tommy Lee Jones as Ed Tom Bell the soothing voice of reason and wisdom!…
Quiet. Vicious. Funny. Disturbing. Only single words can describe this Coen Brothers masterpiece. Fantastic ending which offers more questions than answers. Kind of slow pace but keeps you hooked all the way through. Bardem is terrific and thoroughly deserves his Oscar.
Through the entire film i was like "bitch wtf ur doin", i was shook. Javier Bardem's performance is incredible.
i can tell that this was one of the best films i've ever seen and i really need to watch it again to understand why
any serious film i watch with female friends in the middle of the day automatically becomes a comedy somehow
this is a good movie. the suspense is really well done, and, as long as you can keep attention, it's incredibly engaging all the way through. i will say, the first time i watched it i fell in and out of focus and i liked it a lot less. so, it's definitely a film you have to be in the mood for. love the bad guy character. esp. his hair. and voice. i kinda had a crush on him the whole time. ok end of review
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All the films from all the editions, including those subsequently removed, presently totalling 1199. An easy way of seeing how…
