Friday, December 07, 2007

No Country for Old Men


It’s a film noir/western tale set in 1980 rural Texas. You know… the distant past. Imagine a Louis L’amour novel with hombres running around with Uzis and 4x4s and you have this fantastic film. At the center of this movie is the age old question of what would you do for money? For $2 million I’d probably do the same thing as the protaganist, that’s well played by Josh Brolin, and take the money and see if I could get away with it. Carpe Moolah- Seize the Buck!

What separates this from your typical shoot’em up B movie that’s sprinked with CGI and slow motion action shoots are Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem. Tommy Lee with “In the Valley of Elah” and this movie should get at least an academy award nomination, if not the actual Oscar. He plays a grizzled old small town sheriff that’s confused with the mindless violence of this modern world and what he can do about it. His character has no delusions that he’s Gary Cooper in “High Noon,” He’s an everyman that knows his limits and does what he can.

Javier Bardem provides one of more memorable villain since Anthony Hopkin in “Silence of the Lambs.” He doesn’t yell, sneer, or even raise his voice but meet him once and you automatically cross the street if you see him again.

Favorite Line:

(Woody Harrelson’s character is asked about Anton Chigurh (played by Bardem))

"He’s a psychopathic killer… outside of that he’s fine."

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