04 Jan

No Country For Old Men

Lissa Coffey

Lissa Coffey

Lissa Coffey

Grade: B-

No Country For Old Men is kind of beyond description.  It is definitely an original.  And it’s not for everyone’s tastes, this is not a “mainstream” movie.  It’s not just violent, it’s about violence – and the world that it is set in is a very violent world.  The cast is amazing – Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem.  It’s hard to tell who is crazy and who is sane, who is “good” and who is “bad” – everyone has an agenda, and everyone has a gun.  Josh Brolin plays a guy who happens upon a drug deal gone bad, dead bodies, drugs, and a bunch of money.  He takes the money, then makes the mistake of returning to the scene right when some other bad guys come back.  This set into motion a crazy chase that goes on for much of the movie.  Javier Bardem is the worst, craziest, scariest one – he treats the whole thing like a game.

The tone is very dark, no music, very sparse settings and dialogue.  Interesting, creative, and  disturbing all at the same time.

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