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| No Country For Old Men [2007] | ![No Country For Old Men [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jqVo%2BHIHL._SL160_.jpg)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 81
Category: DVD
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 118 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
EAN: 5014437942838
ASIN: B00147AJQ8
Release Date: June 2, 2008 (In 19 Days)
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 veteran who needs 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 veteran, 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 conscious, 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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Overrated. May 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A real case of Emperors new clothes here. Visually this film was good and for the first hour of so it keeps you hooked, however it just falls apart in the 3rd act. In fact just when you think it's getting interesting i.e. when Moss rings Chigurh on the Hotel phone it just falls apart.
Moss who looks as though he is going to play the psycho at his own game suddenly turns from being a shrewd survivor, who might give Chigurh a run for his money, into a naive moron who gets himself killed. Then there's the ending which is just pathetic.
The Coens are the darlings of American cinema and here they have produced a disjointed film which won't be viewed as a classic in years to come. There Will Be Blood should have won Best Film not this rubbish. I was really disappointed with this film (as you can tell)and wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
 Great Film April 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow that Jarvier Bardem is a real nasty guy just his presence without the cattle gun is enough to really chill to the bone.
The story revolves around Josh Brolin finding 2 million dollars in a bag and a drug deal gone bad so he decides to take the money for himself and go on the run.
Tommy Lee Jones cant quite see what his role was but Brolin and Bardem are amazing.
Fantastic film but a rubbish ending April 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film was brilliant, i was completely hooked all the way through. Until it got to the end... it seemed irrelevant... a really boaring rant by an old man and then the titles came up. If it hadn't have been for the ending it would have definately been a 5 star film. Never the less i will still be buying it.
The best film I've ever seen. April 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Instantly amazing. This piece has moved on what is possible in cinema. Genius. You may have to see it on a big screen to get the full benefit.
I loved it, BUT its not for everyone April 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This Oscar winning film is based on an unusual 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy and is very faithful to the book. Beautifully brought to life with stunning cinematography, inventive direction, some great set pieces and, for the most part, realistic acting. I say for the most part because the main villain, played by Javier Bardem (who also won an Oscar) is like a malevolent phantom; a creature of pure evil, more like the Devil than a person. His nightmarish performance is the best part of the movie - every time he is on screen he chills and fascinates in equal measure.
The film is a modern day Western, set in 1980 on the US / Mexico border with a plot so simple it's not worth mentioning. The action is viewed from the perspectives of the three main characters; the psycho Bardem, a world-weary (and philosophising) Sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones, and a man who gets himself into a heap of trouble, played by Josh Brolin. Although told at a slow pace, the first 2 thirds are very compelling, mostly due to the well-worked set-pieces and the ever-menacing presence of Bardem. The movie does however become ever more strange with a somewhat modernist attention to detail on small things, while the big events get glossed over. By the final third, it has become so interiorised that the action is threatening to cease at any moment. And in fact that's what it does. The film ends when you least expect it to. This has infuriated and baffled many, but, in restrospect, I feel it finishes at just the right time. It's in keeping with the real themes of the movie, which are not spelled out, (and it wouldn't be right for me to spell them out either).
If I had to compare this film to other Coen Bros films; the first two thirds are like Blood Simple and Fargo whereas the final third is more like Barton Fink (i.e a bad dream!). Not everybody's cup of tea, for sure, but like I said, I loved it.
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