Terrifying.

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2009)

No Country for Old Men is a terrifying insight into how the freedom to bounce around the USA, like a bad penny, can leave trails of destruction unimaginable to even the sturdiest of law enforcers.
The Cohen brothers use the wild and endless landscapes of America's south as the canvas for the calmest imaginable psychotic, Shagor, (Javier Bardem), the ageing and tired Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and country boy Llewelyn Moss' money triangle.
The trail begins and grows after Moss finds and runs away with two million in cash. Shagor is employed to track it down and Bell is chasing all concerned after cleaning up the finale of a drug deal gone bad. Bell realises that Moss needs protecting from his own greed as Shagor is a man familiar with taking the freedom to roam as synonymous with the freedom to kill.
The film is a work of art: silence and tension fill the gaps between the noise and death. It is also a metaphor for the reality of western freedom. A storm is brewing; money and freedom are its heart and men are the ones stirring up the wind and rain.