Now I can forgive them for "No Country for Old Men"

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2008)

I was angry when I finished watching "No Country for Old Men". The Coen Brothers know morons, not evil people.
In this amazingly written and directed film, morons walk freely among us, and then they die! The people at the gym, the guy at the CIA, the socially maladjusted doctor, the marshall who never drew his gun... They're morons. They're morons who would have all lived to a ripe old age, except that they met. Large concentrations of morons are very bad for each other.
We are led to believe for a moment that Malkovich's character may have some intelligence floating around in his booze-soaked skull, but even he, in spite of his toughness, is a moron.
Not one frame of this film is wasted. Nothing is the least bit predictable. The characters are believable, just like the teller at the bank who doesn't know how to use the computer is believable. This is the most watchable film the Coen Brothers have done since "Raising Arizona".