No Country for Old Men
- Release Date:
- Nov. 16
- Run Time:
- 2 hr. 2 min.
- Rating:
- R for for strong graphic violence and some language
- Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin ...
- Director:
- Ethan Coen ...
- Genre:
- Action
Quick Peek
"No Country for Old Men" begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two 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 headlines.
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User Reviews for No Country for Old Men
02/28/2008 Posted by EARTHMAN
"No Country For Old Men" is a terrible movie. Cormack McCarthy "borrowed" the original premise for the story from an infinitely better one, "Charley Varrick," starring Walter Matthau, 1973. Any story, no matter how far fetched, must be able to convey a sense of 'plausibility.' The genius of a really good author is the ability to drag you into the story and inject you with the passion, emotion, fear, sympathy, and suspense, that drives the story, and leave you with a sense of, "that could really happen!" "No Country" fails in all of that. As soon as the end credits began to run, I found myself heading for the door. I noticed the fifty, or so, other moviegoers, just sat there, stunned, obviously in disbelief that they paid actual money to see this visual insult. What an over-hyped fraud! What a wasted effort! Go rent "Charley Varrick" and see how it can be done!
02/19/2008 Posted by expatgal
Great character studies, great look, great bad guy, atmosphere to spare, OK fine. But a weak story (Tommy Lee Jones mails it in, when ostensibly the title refers to his character) and a truly lousy, lazy, anti-climactic ending. At the show we saw, when the screen went black and the credits started rolloing, someone somewhere in the dark theater exclaimed "Are you kidding me?!" and the whole room laughed. We think they just got tired or ran out of film or something. We think Oscar was stoned when he went to the movies this year, to annoint movies like this one and Atonement as high art rather than seeing them for the unsatisfying, pretentious, pretty but very flawed things they are. I'd have liked both of them a bit more if not for all the hype. As it is they do not live up to their advertising, IMHO
Pros: Javier Bardem, a bad guy for the ages
Cons: pretentious technique and direction for film school geeks, a zero ending that wasn't an ending
