No Country for Old Men (2007)

“There are no clean getaways”

Hell no; especially when you’ve stumbled on a drug deal gone wrong and stole about 2 million dollars in cash.

If people stole money from me, I’ll hunt them down until they’re dead and also until I got my money back.

In No Country for Old Men, Josh Brolin plays Llewelyn, a hunter who stumbles upon a suitcase full of 100 dollar bills. He returns to the scene of the crime and his hunted down by the Mexicans who were the ones that set up the drug scene gone wrong. Soon after, he is being hunted. Not by a man, or a woman, not a human. What’s hunting him down is pure horrifying evil, in the form of a man.

No Country for Old Men is another great story from Joel and Ethan Coen, otherwise known as the Coen brothers, otherwise known as the “two-headed” directors. They tell a simple cat-and-mouse game from Hell, but there’s so much suspense and little dialogue that really turn this simple chase movie into a hardcore thriller. Little basic techniques create such a tense setting that same to have affected the audience more than Llewelyn.

The acting was also very superb. I have to praise Javier Bardem’s amazingly insane performance as Anton Chigurh. Chigurh was apparently the leader of the aforementioned drug deal and was the one hunting Llewelyn. It was him that brought alive the chase of the scene. It was his monstrous, yet very calm, attitude and personality that did the trick and tensed every single individual who saw the movie. Other great portrayals were from the other main cast, Tommy Lee Jones as Sherriff Ed Tom Bell, who had this attitude that he had given up on saving his community due to the increasing violence the world has taken; and Josh Brolin as Llewelyn, who never gave up, had courage built up, and always stood up for himself and never backed down.

This film is really truly a great story of a cat-and-mouse game told through the four eyes of the Coen brothers. It shows that they simply can’t make a horrible movie, even if they tried to. With terrific acting, a wonderful script, and pitch-perfect directing, I reward this film with a 5 out of 5 and you can own it now on DVD.