Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across a pickup truck surrounded by several corpses and filled with heroin and two million dollars in cash, which he promptly takes off with. However, attempting to retrieve the stolen booty are the proper owners of the drugs and money, who are none too pleased, including a psychotic killer (Javier Bardem) who judges people's lives with the flip of a coin.
Bardem's portrayal of Anton Chigurh is epic. If Hannibal Lector is the #1 villain of all time, Chigurh is 1A. Not since The Terminator has a killer killed with the emotion of a rock. He kills out of anger, he kills for revenge, and most upsetting he kills for simple convenience. Chigurh does all of this without flinching.
No Country For Old Men should be seen in the theater. It's desert landscapes and wide open spaces are translated to the audience much more convincingly than the best of any large television screens at home.
Like most Cohen brother's films, it has a quirky ending. In all of their other films the odd endings work well. In Country, the ending didn't work...That's why the film gets a "9" instead of a perfect score.
Bardem's portrayal of Anton Chigurh is epic. If Hannibal Lector is the #1 villain of all time, Chigurh is 1A. Not since The Terminator has a killer killed with the emotion of a rock. He kills out of anger, he kills for revenge, and most upsetting he kills for simple convenience. Chigurh does all of this without flinching.
No Country For Old Men should be seen in the theater. It's desert landscapes and wide open spaces are translated to the audience much more convincingly than the best of any large television screens at home.
Like most Cohen brother's films, it has a quirky ending. In all of their other films the odd endings work well. In Country, the ending didn't work...That's why the film gets a "9" instead of a perfect score.
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