Unique

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2016)

No Country For Old Men is a very unique movie. There are things that every person would feel a movie needs to have that No Country For Old Men does not include. This different style of movie actually worked very well and the directors, Ethan and Joel Coen, did a good job of creating this story for us. The lack of any non-diegetic sound in the movie, including music, made the setting of an empty wild west theme come to life. The movie includes a some of money that is hunted by the cartel and a mysterious man that you don't learn much about the entirety of the film. This man had very well written lines with lots of wit. Even though he had little to no backstory i felt he was a very good character in the movie. What confused me a lot was the death of the main character. the main character dies with about fifteen or so minutes left in the movie. You also do not see him die. He was killed by the cartel as you see them drive away from the scene. This was very strange as most movies do not kill off their main character's in such a way. Overall I felt this movie was very different and unique and even though it was rather slow, it had lots of action and had an interesting plot.