An American Masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (29 February 2008)

I normally don't write reviews on here(especially when I've written such a review beforehand), but the backlash needs to be handled.
It's rare for a great film to consist of nothing less than great scenes. Every single second of "No Country for Old Men" maintains its purpose, yet the film strays away from a true conclusion. Some people like their endings chewed down and spit out, but the Coen Brothers avoid copping out by copping out. As strange as it sounds, the "nonending" channels the confusion and despair of the characters.
Then, there's Anton Chigurh, one of the great cinema villains of all time. He can scare even the bravest soul with his blank stare, and he practically redefines the term, "killing machine." Josh Brolin acts in a bare manner stripping any verbal complexities while adding many physical complexities.Brolin believably endures every ounce of Llewelyn's agony. Tommy Lee Jones shows the real despair as Ed Tom Bell, a sheriff that can't understand or catch as enemies as well as he desires.
The Coen Brothers aren't unfamiliar with greatness. "Blood Simple," "Miller's Crossing," "Barton Fink," and "Fargo" all maintain appropriately impressive reputations, but with "No Country for Old Men," The Coen Brothers use Cormac McCarthy's novel to breach the suspense genre. It's a bleak, challenging, funny, honest, suspenseful, and uncompromising epic that'll separate the true moviegoers from the fans of "Rambo III." This is probably my favorite film of the last five years.