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No Country for Old Men
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MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic violence and some language
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, and Kelly Macdonald
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and 2 million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law, in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell, can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers--in particular, a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives--the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headline. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen |
| DIRECTED BY: |
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 11, 2008 Theatrical: November 9, 2007 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 122 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 567 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Anon Ny'Mous gave it a10:
Great film, in spite of what the others say. Maybe the way it breaks away from the norm after the first helps aid the point? Anyway how can a film with a villain such as that be unentertaining?
Tony B. gave it a10:
Great film. Acting was incredible the story line was superb. I hate people commenting on the ending, the ending was extremly well done, it was how the story was supposed to end.
anonymous anonymous gave it a10:
This is a brilliant piece of cinematography and storytelling, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Devon C. gave it a9:
No Country For Old Men Movie Review: In a nutshell. No Country For Old Men is definitely a hit classic, and is the Coen brother’s Best Motion Picture. With a mix of seriousness of Ethan Coen’s desire, and a blend of Dark humor done right of Joel Coen’s desire. It is a brilliantly adapted and written script by a fascinating bloody wonder of a novel. Javier Bardem’s spectacular performance astoundingly deserved his academy award. His role of a mass killer carrying an unusual weapon around, and an oxygen tank for his assistance makes him a gritty-looking madman. He goes around killing everybody, with no feelings or soul and heart for anybody in the world. His wry performance makes this film feel uneasy and uncomfortable, it doesn’t settle in that easy. But as the tagline says: There are no clean getaways. But it forms with the perfect amount of build-up for all characters for an engaging plot. But there are a bit of a few flaws in this amazing picture. One is that Llwelyn Moss’ character has enough screen time, and is a highly likable character, but with him being player 1 in the story. Where is the film’s focus? At first its Llwelyn’s character dancing around from motel to motel, and suddenly (SPOILERS---SPOILERS) he just gets killed off, having just Tom Bell witness things on his part. And then it goes right to Tom Bell, the last 20 minutes is based on his character and how he feels overmatched. Also it shows an unresolved piece of Anton Chigurh just walking away with a fucking bone sticking out of his arm. And does he kill the girl? It shows him looking at his shoes for blood as he always does. But do Joel and Ethan Coen just expect us to take the impression that the girl’s dead. Because I didn’t know that until a smart-thinker told me when I walked out of the theatre. Yet it goes from player 1 (Llwelyn), then to player 2 (Tom Bell), so the real question is if it is either Llwelyn’s story, or Tom Bell’s story? Putting both in the same place just looses the film’s focus in who’s player 1. It takes turns with character screen time, and the development is truly as good as it gets. Just the focus on a guy who found a stash of money which goes to an officer who feels overmatched just confuses us in who’s story it really is and who it belongs to. And the last 20 minutes was kind of slow, it was slow in a depressed way, which just ruins the film’s pace. But it keeps the same brilliant and engagingly powerful entertainment the first hour and a half had. I found the ending a bit strange and wrapped up not as neat as you expect. Having the Coen brothers bring something new to the big screen, with unpredictably shows their confidence boost. They keep it original, with loose ends, which give us the test of hard thinking, but boy, despite all of its flaws, it is a bloody wonder, an amazing masterpiece. It definitely deserved the best picture academy award, and thank god that craptacular Atonement did not win it. And gratefully enough, here we have the Coen’s best and obviously most achieving and accomplishing motion picture they have ever made. Impressed.
Linda W. gave it a1:
The ending ruined the whole movie.
Michelle gave it a2:
The movie had potential right up until you popped it into the dvd player. the story sounded good, execution sucked. You are left wondering why about too many things...Don't get me wrong I like movies that make you think and make you wonder but you need SOME details to why or else it's just pointless killing and it was so slow. I did not develop any feelings for any characters in the film so I really didn't care if they lived or died. And since when does a good movie let the bad guy get away and as much as I love Tommy Lee, I can't believe he would play a character that can be classified only as a quitter. Awful waste of 2 hours! The only reason I didn't give it a 0 is because, again, it had potential and it had Tommy Lee Jones in it.
Aj gave it a10:
Very intense thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. BIG LEBOWSKI baby.
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