Baddest bad guy ever.

God bless the Coen Brothers. This film is a masterpiece.

IMO Probably the Coens best (its a tie between Lebowski and Fargo) .Truly thrilling and engaging.Also beautifully shot , and the minimal use of music ironically heightens the tension thorughout. Bardem truly deserved his oscar, whose cold ,frightenin... (read more) IMO Probably the Coens best (its a tie between Lebowski and Fargo) .Truly thrilling and engaging.Also beautifully shot , and the minimal use of music ironically heightens the tension thorughout. Bardem truly deserved his oscar, whose cold ,frightening and often darkly humorous performance stole the show.

How much does chance play in our clashes with evil? If that's too philosophical for you, then, pardner, you'd best turn to entertainment other than "No Country for Old Men," arguably the best yet from the Coen brothers. Adult, sophisticated, and ofte... (read more) How much does chance play in our clashes with evil? If that's too philosophical for you, then, pardner, you'd best turn to entertainment other than "No Country for Old Men," arguably the best yet from the Coen brothers. Adult, sophisticated, and often ambiguous.

I think this film lacks in convincing conclusion. The ending isn't really an end to story line. Javier Bardem is really scary, though.

Intense and unpredictable - while you sit and wait for the twist in the end to happen, you realize that you have already heard what the movie was about to tell you.

This movie has amazing acting in it. The tension is incredible!

While No Country For Old Men is compelling from beginning to end, the film lacks soul.

If I want wry lawmen and smart, calculating fugitives, I'll get them from Elmore Leonard; and, if I want Leonard, I'll take him neat, rather than slow-filtered, drop by drop, through a layer of Faulkner, then laced with the Book of Jeremiah.

Here's the gist: It's a near masterpiece.

The Coens squeeze us without mercy in a vise of tension and suspense, but only to force us to look into an abyss of our own making.

Feels less like a breathing, thinking movie than an exercise. That may be partly because it's an adaptation of a book by a contemporary author who's usually spoken of in hushed, respectful, hat-in-hand tones.