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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0786936746754 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Miramax Languages: Manufacturer: Miramax MPN: 5564003 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 11, 2008 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife (Kelly Macdonald) he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On the way from El Paso to Mexico, he discovers he's being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh (an eerily calm Javier Bardem). Chigurh's weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way--or loses a coin toss (as far as he's concerned, bad luck is grounds for death). Just as Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a World War II vet, is on Moss's trail, Chigurh's former colleague, Wells (Woody Harrelson), is on his. For most of the movie, Moss remains one step ahead of his nemesis. Both men are clever and resourceful--except Moss has a conscience, Chigurh does not (he is, as McCarthy puts it, "a prophet of destruction"). At times, the film plays like an old horror movie, with Chigurh as its lumbering Frankenstein monster. Like the taciturn terminator, No Country for Old Men doesn't move quickly, but the tension never dissipates. This minimalist masterwork represents Joel and Ethan Coen and their entire cast, particularly Brolin and Jones, at the peak of their powers. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - NOT worthy of a Best Picture Academy Award (or any award for that matter)Fortunately, I borrowed this disc (Blu-Ray) from a friend. Many of us use that common rating system: Is it worth seeing at the theater, or wait until it comes out on disc and rent it? Thankfully I didn't pay anything to see this movie because that's what it was worth. Bottom line, don't waste your time; it's VERY unfulfilling. I don't have any faith in the Academy Awards choosing best picture any longer. It seems that they had to give it to something, so why not this? Read More Rating:  - Why one should not steal money from the bad guysTexas heat and a slew of shady characters ornament this movie. As main character Moss runs into mess of human and canine bodies and finds $2MM drug money during his hunting trip, we get to see the determination of the former Vietnam vet to turn the life of his family around once he has a full possesion of his money. As he tries to avoid drug dealers, former special operations soldiers and a serial killer he gets on to fight for his life as if he is back in the war fields. We track him pacing between ... Read More Rating: - Don't believe the hype, this movie sucksOK, basically this is a bad movie with good actors: The killer in the movie (the guy you want to get killed at the very end) is an non scary mortal who just kills all the characters in the movie except for the sharif (played by Tommy Lee Jones) with this big gun. And the director makes all the killings look sad. Then to make matter's worst in the end of this movie kind of the good guy's wife is killed right after he had died for basically no reason by the killer. Then the Killer gets into ... Read More Rating:  - BAD GUY IS INSANE !This is a great movie. Not what I was expecting, but still great. The bad guy is scary as hell! I do not know where they found him, but my god he delivered one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. Just the way he talks to people in the movie gave me the chills. They need to get him cast in a horror movie A.S.A.P. Rating: - Best thing the Coens have EVER doneWow. Just, . . . wow. I've long been a fan of the Coen Brothers, but this riveting treatment of Cormac McCarthy's novel is the best thing they've ever done. Josh Brolin is absolutely believable as Llewelyn Moss, a West Texas welder and Vietnam vet who's out hunting pronghorn one day and comes across a drug/money exchange gone sour. Lots of dead bodies, lots of vehicles full of shotgun holes, and a briefcase with a couple million dollars in it. He should have walked away and called the police, but he gets ... Read More |
