The film features Tommy Lee Jones(Sheriff Ed Tom Bell), Woody Harrelson(Carson Wells), Josh Brolin(Llewelyn Moss), Kelly Macdonald(Carla Jean Moss) and Javier Bardem(Anton Chigurh). Ethan and Joel Coen wrote, produced, and directed the film. Four Golden Globes nominations has been credited to the film. Rated-R.
Llewelyn Moss is in an isolated area where he finds dead men and guns that subsequently leads him to find over 2 million dollars related to a drug deal. Leaving this amount of money behind proved difficult, but even more difficult to report to the police. After Llewelyn hides the money, Anton Chigurh, a cunning and ruthless killer with an air gun and a peculiar disposition, methodically tracks Llewelyn while leaving a trail of blood shed.
No Country For Old Men has an independent film quality that may be an acquired taste for movie fans who are inured to the feel of mainstream movies. The writing is thoughtful and funny. At times the comedic and thoughtful content of the writing is treated with eariness, providing a dark comedy element to the film. Being a movie about a drug deal that went wrong makes the story mainstream , but the movie is idiosyncratic. The action scenes are designed differently, focusing more on strategic bloodshed rather than bloodshed for shock value, although certain action scenes were shocking. Movie fans witnessed a different brand of killer who used an air-gun as the killing machine of choice, and that, amongst other factors made the film exceptionally unique.
Gaining a deep understanding of Tommy Lee Jone's character, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, is key to appreciating the title of the movie. Throughout the film Sheriff Bell appears unmotivated and intellectually outdated. Bell is not acute enough to pick up on certain clues that could potentially give him leverage on Chigurh, and in one scene Bell is unwilling to actually partake in the investigation, but not for lofty reasons. As Sheriff, Bell is an antiquity of law enforcement who feels outmatched while waiting for the impending doom called old age or older age in this case. In conclusion the film is impressive, but it does require movie fans to see it with as much of a creative eye as possible due to the brilliant idiosyncrasies of the film.
Llewelyn Moss is in an isolated area where he finds dead men and guns that subsequently leads him to find over 2 million dollars related to a drug deal. Leaving this amount of money behind proved difficult, but even more difficult to report to the police. After Llewelyn hides the money, Anton Chigurh, a cunning and ruthless killer with an air gun and a peculiar disposition, methodically tracks Llewelyn while leaving a trail of blood shed.
No Country For Old Men has an independent film quality that may be an acquired taste for movie fans who are inured to the feel of mainstream movies. The writing is thoughtful and funny. At times the comedic and thoughtful content of the writing is treated with eariness, providing a dark comedy element to the film. Being a movie about a drug deal that went wrong makes the story mainstream , but the movie is idiosyncratic. The action scenes are designed differently, focusing more on strategic bloodshed rather than bloodshed for shock value, although certain action scenes were shocking. Movie fans witnessed a different brand of killer who used an air-gun as the killing machine of choice, and that, amongst other factors made the film exceptionally unique.
Gaining a deep understanding of Tommy Lee Jone's character, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, is key to appreciating the title of the movie. Throughout the film Sheriff Bell appears unmotivated and intellectually outdated. Bell is not acute enough to pick up on certain clues that could potentially give him leverage on Chigurh, and in one scene Bell is unwilling to actually partake in the investigation, but not for lofty reasons. As Sheriff, Bell is an antiquity of law enforcement who feels outmatched while waiting for the impending doom called old age or older age in this case. In conclusion the film is impressive, but it does require movie fans to see it with as much of a creative eye as possible due to the brilliant idiosyncrasies of the film.
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