A Little Overrated, But Still Awesome.

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2014)

I just want to say that Fargo is Joel and Ethan's best. No Country For Old Men does not even come close to it. All that say this is 2007's best, I might agree with. I actually thought that there wasn't many great flicks that came out that year. This would not have been so well-received if it came out ten years earlier. However, I did like this lots. The Coen brothers never let me down. Like the other movies they've done, No Country For Old Men features cool characters, intriguing dialogue, and loads of suspense. This follows a redneck (Brolin) who finds a suitcase of money from a drug deal gone wrong. He is followed by a nutcase (Bardem) that escapes from prison and is after the money. A sheriff (Jones) may be the only one that can bring peace to the bloodshed that soon happens. As I said earlier, all characters are awesome. Bardem is probably the best one as he plays a stone-cold killer that is as evil as can be. Brolin is the character that everybody roots for and Jones plays a great sheriff with a troubled past. The first little bit contains very little dialogue. Little dialogue during a cat-and-mouse game adds lots of suspense. You are interested with what diabolical move Bardem is going to do and how Brolin will keep the money. How can characters be developed well with little dialogue? Watch and see. Eventually, more dialogue does come in, along with more of Jones, while still trying to stay the same noir-western style as earlier. Nothing is wrong with that, it just needs to be as clever as before, if not more. The movie is still exciting and fun, but it eventually just gets stale as the plot slows down, so the suspense decreases. The movie changes from a thriller to a drama. If a movie is a thriller, keep it a thriller, but add drama to it. Or is a movie is a drama, make it an exciting one. I didn't mind the Coen brother changing the genre the way they did, I just thought the movie lost something when it happened.
4/4