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| Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce, Josh Brolin, Barry Corbin, Beth Grant
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  574 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 5564003
UPC: 786936746754
EAN: 0786936746754
ASIN: B00118T63C
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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 The Bad Guy Didn't Win August 23, 2008
Some Guy In Ohio
Most everyone that criticizes this movie doesn't bother to dig deeper into what it all meant. It is an analogy for what happened to America in the early 80's. Nothing more, nothing less.
The bad guy isn't a guy. He is a symbol of the brutality and needless violence surrounding the drug trade that hit America in the 80's. He's soulless, and follows his own flawed logic down a path of destruction. The look on his face when confronting the wife at the very end, tells it all. He seems to know that she is right, and that he is indeed warped, but he can't grasp what's broken inside of him. He leaves the movie a desperate and illogical broken menace, like the violence that consumed entire communities when hard drugs exploded into our cities.
Its a brilliantly executed take on a often swept under the rug social issue. And the acting ain't bad either.
Sometimes movies don't have happy endings. And sometimes the ending isn't even about who wins. If you often need to have stories explained to you, then this isn't for you. And its not even that vague or hard of a movie to digest... Some people just hate putting for any effort in understanding a story. Their loss. This film doesn't come with a spoon to feed you.
Also, the opening 20 minutes of near word free storytelling is a lesson to all future writers and directors. Sometimes less is more. Utterly fantastic beginning to a great movie. It has the surreal feel of Raising Arizona, with the cold touch of Fargo. Probably the Coen's best work yet.
 Violent and gory but it'll stick with you August 22, 2008
Shannon M. Janeczek (Milan, MI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Javier Bardem as Chigurh in this movie FREAKED ME OUT. This is a very violent and sometimes just plain gory movie. But Tommy Lee Jones is awesome as the sheriff who, although very savvy, always seems to be one step behind the bad guys... Josh Brolin's character is smart and seems like he can outsmart the psycho killer. The tension in this movie will literally keep you on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next. You'll be looking in the shadows for a day or two later, just to make sure there's no one there.
 No Plot, No Hope, No Country for Anyone August 19, 2008
Mycroft (Charleston, Oregon)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This slow, dull, morbid film stumbles along without a single thread you can cling to. The opening scene is a graphic murder and that is by far the most uplifting thing your will see for the next two hours.
The story of a drug deal gone bad and the hunt to recover the money should be the stuff of any red blooded boy's dreams, Sonny Crockett and a Ferrari and maybe a neeked girl or two...all you'll get here is the sub-blasted landscape of west Texas.
The bad guy laughingly drags a cylinder of air and a shot rod, used for killing cattle, to all of his crimes. But that isn't the worst, no, he also has a silencered shotgun. Assuming that the muzzle blast didn't send the silencer across the room in a cloud of shrapnel, the gas vent when the action opens would wake the dead even in a county where the nearest neighbors are fifteen miles away. Of course it doesn't matter, there is a shotgun duel in the middle of town which wakes no one so one must assume that everyone is dead already.
No if you have two hours to waste try Scooby-doo on Monster Island. At least Jennifer Love Hewitt gets to act whch is more than anyone in No Country For Old Men.
This is a film to run from, don't buy it, don't rent it, don't even speak of it, the sooner it goes to video and dissappears the better
No Country For Old Men, A Poignant Film August 17, 2008
Conner Macleod (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
*Beware of spoilers within*
I was highly skeptical of this film ever since I heard of the infamous pre-Oscar buzz, because pretty much any movie today that wins any Oscar is mostly due to political reasons and not so much its quality. Well I'm glad to say that this wasn't one of them, I was pleasantly surprised.
The movie starts out with Josh Brolin's character going out into the Texas desert where he stumbles upon this drug deal that's gone terribly wrong. He finds a large stash of cash which he takes, as well as a few guns that are laying around. After this he goes straight home and we find out that he's a simple man who's down on his luck, doesn't have a job and he lives in a trailer home with his wife, so naturally this find was of considerable boost to his otherwise destitute life. From here on out is where his life begins unravelling, unfortunately, as he goes on the run from the hired gun who's out to collect what belongs to the Mexican drug cartel.
What struck me about this film were the performances, first and foremost, particularly fom Javier Bardem who really shined in his role as the evil antagonist Anton Chigurh, he truly steals the show. Josh Brolin does a great job as the unlikely hero Llewelyn Moss, and together him and Javier really cement this film as a tour de force show between the every man vs. great evil, kind of an epic struggle on a minor scale. As soon as Chigurh is introduced, there's no mistaking what he's all about and what he's capable of. He is very cold, mechanical and highly efficient at what he does, yet he lives his life by a set of seemingly arbitrary yet unbending principles revolving around destiny. Chigurh is so incredibly evil, it bothered me far more than any 'Saw' type movie and its ilk. He just oozes the essence of darkness, he is evil personified. The only one that compares would be Hannibal Lecter from 'Silence of the Lambs', and that says quite a bit. He deserved the Oscar for that role, hands down. Even though he's evil, there's a certain kind of respect that he commands, because he's so good at what he does, because of his discipline and dedication, that makes him quite intriguing, which made me wonder about his past and what caused him to be this way. I rooted for Moss the entire film, but I couldn't help being fascinated by this methodic killer on his trail, which made the experience a very haunting and intense ride from beginning to end.
The supporting cast is good too, with solid performances from Woody Harrelson as another mercenary, Barry Corbin as the sheriff's dad and Tommy Lee Jones as the sheriff who's hunting both Moss and Chigurh. Despite its theme and related genre, the movie actually works as a humanistic one as well, a look into human nature and our failings, how we too easily succumb to our frailties.
What I liked about this movie is that its cleverness lies in its subtleties, it doesn't clobber people over the head with its messages like some other, supposed masterpieces do. I'm a big believer in less is more, and this movie delivered that in spades, on so many levels. The Cohen brothers clearly know their art form.
This was one of the few movies in which the title plays an extraordinarily large part in the story, it was quite apt and does make one think more about the overall meaning and how it applies to the human race.
I'm sure there are multiple interpretations to this film, but for me it all came home in the final scene where sheriff Ed Tom Bell hangs up his belt and talks about why he can't do it anymore. He's an old man, and he's quitting because he can't take the pain and misery that he sees on a day to day basis, he's fed up and it's just too much at this stage in his life. From his point of view, he's living in a country that doesn't have any room for old peace officers, he's an ancient relic and he needs to retire, because he failed in what he set out to do, and that there is no point in going on if evil wins. This reminds me of an old quote by Edmund Burke who once said that, paraphrasing, all it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing, which fits this movie to a t. If all the kind, decent people like the sheriff become completely apathetic or simply give up fighting against evil, then evil WILL conquer the world, so the movie is a message about tenacity and having the will to fight the good fight, to continue no matter what obstacles lie in the road. Sure, sometimes evil will win and get away scott free, but that's not a good enough reason to throw in the towel, one has to keep on duking it out, because if one does not, then we are all doomed for sure.
 For most of it's length, a strong thriller, but hobbled by a divisive ending. August 17, 2008
S. Curley (Charlottetown, PE, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Coen Brothers, after a decade of middling productions following the (highly overrated, in my opinion) "Fargo", hit a major success in 2007 with their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. It racked up awards, ultimately winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards, among other Oscars. I did not see it until February 2008, when in arrived in theatres on Prince Edward Island.
The film functions on two levels: the first is as a pure thriller, and on that level it is an all-but-unqualified success. The Coens are tremendous filmmakers on a technical level, and so they are able to conjure up a series of stunningly tense set-pieces, pitting various characters against Javier Bardem's stone-cold killer Anton Chigurh. One, particularly, is brilliant: Josh Brolin's character, Llewelyn Mars, sits in his motel room, having found the tracking device placed on his person, and listens as the ominous beeping of the tracking device (which the audience has previously observed in action) approaches: the audience is on pins and needles. A great thriller needs a great villain, and Chigurh is as good a filmic foe as I have seen in many years. He is determined, and his ability to continually keep on the trail of his opponents and absorb pan is almost Schwarzeneggerian. The Coens supply him with some grisly signature weapons as well, from a nasty-looking gun to the prominent air-fired cattlegun. Bardem's performance is quite intimidating. Elsewhere, Josh Brolin and Kelly Macdonald are strong as as his most prominent targets (the latter has a particularly fine scene right at the end).
Then there is the second level, that of a more existential drama, and on that level I am less certain. There are issues of fate, chance, and the like in play here, and the nature of evil (incarnated in Chigurh), and none are really resolved, or, as far as I can see, amount to much. The title refers to Tommy Lee Jones' character's belief that the world is becoming less and less civilized as time passes. However, the movie welcomely bucks this, as Jones' elderly uncle relates that the world has always been a cruel and hard place, and criticizes his 'vanity' at thinking he could really change it. The end is inconclusive, and I could tell that many of the audience in the theatre were not satisfied by the movie's climax (which basically avoids anything climactic). Thematically, the "evil wins" motif is rather banal.
This is a gripping film experience most of the way through, but the ending does not work as the ending of a thriller, and I never found the other themes particularly well-developed; ultimately, I give it three stars; as a thriller, it probably rates as at least a four; as an existential story, I'd lean towards 2.
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