No Country for Old Men (2007)
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
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R, 2 hrs. 2 min.
Directed by:
Ethan Coen,
Joel Coen
Release Date: Nov 21, 2007
DVD Release Date: Apr 07, 2009
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its hard to understand everything about the ending but it is a very suspenseful movie with great acting.
Uninspiring. Baffled as to why it is so critically acclaimed. Well down my list of Coen Brothers films.
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.
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[It] just might be the Coen brothers' singular mythic masterwork.full review
A great American film. A dark and sometimes bleakly comic vision of our violent culture.full review
Deeper, funnier and even stranger than Fargo.full review
No Country for Old Men is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made Fargo.full review
For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- No Country for Old Men is pure heaven.
While No Country For Old Men is compelling from beginning to end, the film lacks soul.full review
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.full review
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.full review
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.full review
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