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No Country For Old Men
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
As many as you have probably heard, I think this movie is vastly over-rated. Don't get me wrong, I thought this movie was good, just not #15 on the IMDB.com top 250 as it once was, good.
The acting in this film was very top-notch from all involved. But beyond the spoken Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, a very under-rated performance lies. I am speaking of Kelly Macdonald's performance as Carla Jean Moss. She's the only character that shares a scene between the three main characters, and holds her own.
The directing was also very good, which I have come to expect from the Coen Bros. over the years. I must say that I didn't think it deserved an Oscar, at least this year. I feel that if the academy really liked it, they would have liked it, twelve years ago, for a better movie named Fargo. You can see the similarities of the shots if you really look.
This is where the flaming begins. I didn't like the fact that there were unneccesary characters. You could have chopped some of them out and the movie would probably change a bit, but in the end I saw no need for them. One character has one conversation, then gets shot in his office, it just had me say, ummmmm okay.
Now that I am probably looking like the Devil to you all, I may as well add another thing I didn't like about this movie. A lot of things do not add up. Like in one scene, where Carla Jean, questions her husband as to where he found a shiny new pistol, then he refuses to tell her, and she was okay with it. I also felt that for being the "ultimate badass" Anton's aim was very inconsistent, at one time he can walk in and aim for two seconds across an office and shoot someone in the neck. In the other scene he can't hit a man runnign down a street while he is in a window. I know that there is a suspence build involved, but come on.
Rating: a solid
P.s. I must also add that I didn't like how some of the characters die, but we don't see them die. I didn't feel like it was a good end to characters you have come to like.l
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
As many as you have probably heard, I think this movie is vastly over-rated. Don't get me wrong, I thought this movie was good, just not #15 on the IMDB.com top 250 as it once was, good.
The acting in this film was very top-notch from all involved. But beyond the spoken Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, a very under-rated performance lies. I am speaking of Kelly Macdonald's performance as Carla Jean Moss. She's the only character that shares a scene between the three main characters, and holds her own.
The directing was also very good, which I have come to expect from the Coen Bros. over the years. I must say that I didn't think it deserved an Oscar, at least this year. I feel that if the academy really liked it, they would have liked it, twelve years ago, for a better movie named Fargo. You can see the similarities of the shots if you really look.
This is where the flaming begins. I didn't like the fact that there were unneccesary characters. You could have chopped some of them out and the movie would probably change a bit, but in the end I saw no need for them. One character has one conversation, then gets shot in his office, it just had me say, ummmmm okay.
Now that I am probably looking like the Devil to you all, I may as well add another thing I didn't like about this movie. A lot of things do not add up. Like in one scene, where Carla Jean, questions her husband as to where he found a shiny new pistol, then he refuses to tell her, and she was okay with it. I also felt that for being the "ultimate badass" Anton's aim was very inconsistent, at one time he can walk in and aim for two seconds across an office and shoot someone in the neck. In the other scene he can't hit a man runnign down a street while he is in a window. I know that there is a suspence build involved, but come on.
Rating: a solid
P.s. I must also add that I didn't like how some of the characters die, but we don't see them die. I didn't feel like it was a good end to characters you have come to like.l