Review: No County For Old Men
February 27, 2008 · Print This Article
Los Angeles (CMR) - No Country for Old Men, which opened on November 16, is a very well done film. I particularly like the dialogue, because you can tell that it was done with a great deal of thought and care.
The outfits that the characters wore was also very impressive, and the outfits chosen for the characters were highly distinct.
The directors of this movie, the Coen Brothers, have tried their hand in a lot of genres over the last few decades, and some of these include antic slapstick and film noir.
In addition to this, they’ve also done gangster films and even romantic comedies.
No Country for Old Men marks their return to a more crime like genre. The movie, which is based on the Cormac McCathy novel, shows the story of a man who finds a large amount of dirty money, and the criminals who are determined to track him down.
Tommy Lee Jones stars as Sheriff Bell, and he plays the role of a Texan who is cranky with the way things have changed in his town. While he is a good man, he isn’t really equipped to deal with the evil that he is presented with in the film.
Bell reveals that he comes from a long line of lawmen. He talks about his apprehension of a killer, one so ruthless that he claims they he could “kill again only if it would send him to hell.” Bell performs a voiceover in the film, and he tries to get the viewer to identify with this brand new world of senseless killers, which he himself doesn’t understand. Throughout the movie, this theme continues to be explored in deep detail. Josh Brolin played a very good role as Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam vet who comes across a gun fight while hunting one day.
The gun fight offers Moss the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to get away with two million dollars in hard cold cash. Moss tells his wife to lay low after he takes the money, so that he can handle some things. However, Anton Chigurh(who is played by Javier Bardern), is after Moss, and he is quite brutal. In fact, his relentlessness has often been compared to the terminator.
Overall, No Country for Old Men is a film which is full of suspense, and the acting is very high caliber.
CMR Gives No Country For Old Men 4/5 stars.
was a bit supprised it won for best picture, thought There will be blood would have won
just watched no country for old men, it’s unassumingly unconventional yet (thankfully) never over-the-top. the Coen bros. deserve their Oscars; well done indeed.