NCFOM is one tough nut to crack..but I will give it a shot.

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2008)

No Country For Old Men 7-2-08 NCFOM is one tough nut to crack. This is a film with no central character/protagonist but its not exactly what I'd call an ensemble piece. The most memorable character could easily be called the villain, but can you have a villain w/o a "hero"? Perhaps thats (one of) the point(s) to the film. The over all feeling I'm left with by the time the credits roll (btw love the font used during the credits) is best described by that wonderful line from Natural Born Killers "The whole world's comin' to an end". Now of course thats not to meant in a revelations kind of way but more in the curmudgeonly old man complaining about the damn kids and how things were different/better when he was a boy. The film seems like one long version of that...but in the best possible way. Its a film that manages to be several things though not all at once. It's a thriller that is at times pensive. There is no big bang climax though you might be expecting one. I wasn't particularly disappointed by this fact because by the time it got to the logical point where a big bang climax would have gone (if this were another film) I sort of understood that wasn't the point. What is the point though, im certain it has something to do with violence. Has its gotten worse or is it always been this bad? I haven't quite figured it out yet but I'm rather fond of any film that doesn't telegraph its message to the audience. Or maybe I'm just dince and it does. Never the less I'm happy to watch this film many times over and think about it. At the end of the day maybe thats the point.