The Coen Brothers continue to exceed!

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2008)

I finally had the chance to watch this movie by buying the DVD. It was a great addition to my collection of Fargo, O' Brother where Thou. This movie is shockingly good. One of things I would like to point out is the actors uncanny ability to replicate real behavior of Texans and Mexican's I have lived in New Mexico and have friends who are native Texans. Obivously, Tommy Lee Jones being born in Texas was a natural but Woody Harrelson's performance was so good that I wished he would have more screen time. Josh Brolin the concept of him on the screen portraying a roughneck welder was a natural. However, I must not forget Javier Barden. So rare you find a character that so determined to stay with his basic but complicated principals of life it was a real. Details are everything to me in seeing a movie. This movie does not disappoint. It was an easy stretch to believe this movie was set in 1980. Where on earth did they find those Black and White TV's? Even the gun's were from the early 1980's No glocks here. I wonder what this movie would look like in Black and White. Would it have shown the bleakness in the countryside, where the first murder scene was shown. Comparetivley speaking, the setting of the movie in rural Texas gave me the same kind of desolate feeling that when I watched the Last Picture Show. In closing, the acting I feel was this movies strongest suit. Of course the directors has a lot to do with it.