"There are no clean getaways"

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 2011)

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
I've never seen much of Ethen and Joel Cohen's work but this was a pretty good example of what they can do. No country for old men would sound like a pretty weird title for a movie like this, but there's an explanation by the end of the movie. I really enjoyed the cat-and-mouse chase between the two and the tension was pretty real (especially the almost no score and almost silent.) The villain in the movie got a bunch of awards for being the most intimidating next to Joker, which he is a pretty menacing, crazy guy. The whole drug war thing is very real and by the end of the movie, it feels like you have just ran because of the real tension. I'm also a fan of the fade-to-black endings where it has no real direction to it, but that in my case, it's near brilliant. But anyways, if you want to see a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase throughout the western drug war, see this. It is a pretty damn-good movie and kept me at the edge of my seat throughout. 9/10.