West Texas is overrun by folks with no rules.

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2013)

Sure, there's some abrupt violence and a message in there about the inability to fight such evil, but in between there is specific dialogue and wonderful acting that corrupts your attention and freezes time. Javier Bardem is the creepiest of villains by his deliberate attitude towards the truth embodied by the coin flip scene at the gas station. James Brolin is the man convinced he can beat evil, but it's coming from all over and Tommy Lee Jones is the conscience of the film with the epiphany that there is no stopping such evil.The West Texas community comes across as good folk, predictable but blind to what's coming. Notice each scene where local kids are selling or giving the shirts off their backs when one of their group gets greedy and wants a piece of the action or profit.
That's as important to the story and the plot itself.