No Country for Old Men Review

No Country for Old Men, adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s novel is a thriller directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, starring Tommy Lee Jones Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. It runs for 122 minutes and is Rated R for strong graphic violence and some language.

In the middle of the Texan wilderness a welder and hunter stumbles across the remains of a drug exchange gone awfully wrong. He discovers the stash of drugs on the bed of one of the trucks grabs a couple million dollars which he keeps for himself. Shortly he is pursued by a psychopathic and particularly ruthless killer who dispatches anyone who gets between him and his money with unremitting detachment. It takes all his Army training to stay one step ahead, desperate to elude the killer. Meanwhile the reticent Sheriff pursues the two on this most difficult case and finds that moment for moment the task is getting supremely out of hand.

There is no way in hell am i crossing his path for any reason.

I would recommend this movie for its remarkably quiet scenes as the score was limited to about three points in the movie giving it this surreal potency and menace that commands your attention due to the lack of extraneous stimulation as is supremely common in many action flicks.

The photography and cinematography is pristine and no scene was wasted in meaningless digression with sufficient carnage and mayhem to keep me quite hooked from the get go, the lulls as one scene builds into another working to enrich the plot of the movie. The villain is a figure so evil, dispassionate and relentlessly violent, extremely remorseless belaboring belief.

A must watch in my books. If not for anything, for the craft of the movie, the dark humour and brilliant use of devices other than music to jangle your nerves and set your heart beat racing.