Here again, a love or hate movie...

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2008)

No Country For Old Man: "what a movie", I wish I could say that.
At this time of writing it's got 8.7 rating here which is very high that pushed me to watch it again closely, read the message boards and some other comments. After doing all of my homework, I'm now pretty much convinced that here Cohen Brothers playing with us (the audience). They must have thought "let's make another movie, it doesn't need to be sound or logical, hey wait it must not be, this way people can argue about it, talk about and it and it shall be hell of a success".
This movie gets it's story from a book which I did not read. Some say they've followed the book very closely, I doubt that actually. Because I think the book must be more deep and well structured, and reader find the meaning in the book which is not in the movie. I'm sure the book's author created more imaginative universe where the reader can relate Chigurh with devil, Moss with regular greedy man and Sheriff is in the middle of the story and old man fed up with life and sort of not pursuing things as he used to do.. So, all the story flows like a charm therefore the reader is satisfied, found some pieces going with his heart and everything is well done (I hope the book is like as I reckon). But the movie doesn't make you feel like this. It didn't for me!
First part of the movie is very well paced, I even did forgive the stupidness of Moss going back to desert to give the man some water. But beginning of the second part everything starts to fall apart. There are so many illogical, unexplainable (even lovers of the movie can't) parts in this movie, most of them are written in the message board and in other comments. What I want to point out here is if you really try hard to put some meaning into it go ahead, but if you're searching anything in it, don't bother yourself because it's empty.
It strangely feels as if Sheriff Bell is actually partnering with Chigurh as at many points Sheriff is avoiding to catch him. He's not going with other investigators, he mentions the cattle gun but doesn't get the trick and pursue it. Sheriff is like no one, he hasn't done anything actually.
Having all this considered, I'm still suspicious if I'm missing anything, but I think it's more like lovers of the movie are the ones who is afraid of saying "the king is naked".