Another good film from the Coens

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2009)

From my opinion "No Country for Old Men" isn't the best Coen brothers film. But that is not to say, it's a bad film, far from it, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did of "Fargo" or "Big Lebowski".
The story starts, when a lone man Moss (Josh Brolin) is hunting in the desert. He happens to stumble upon a busted drug deal and he finds a satchel full of money which he decides to keep to himself. Little he knows, that a psychotic killer Anton Cigurh (Javier Bardem) is also after the money, while sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is trying to figure out crime, he no longer understands.
No Country could have turned out to be yet another a typical action film, in which everything travels steady as a train towards anti-climatic ending, which can be guessed straight from the opening scene. This would be the case, if the movie would have been done anyone else, than the Coen's. They manage to do a story, that manages to be quite surprising, despite oh so familiar elements.
All in all, No Country is a good, solid film. Personally, as I stated in the beginning, I didn't like it as much I did like of some of the earlier Coen movies, but I still can recommend it, if you like their movies, as it really is a solid piece of cinema.