One of a Kind!

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2007)

Few can comprehend what they see on screen when they watch a movie like No Country for Old Men. I have read and heard hundreds of comments complaining about the films conclusion or the demise of the main characters. Never have I been more blown away by a film and the message that it carries. There is often no reason for the violence in the world and the fact that many viewers are searching for it leaves me speechless.
No Country for Old Men is takes all the different entities in film-making and weaves them into this masterpiece perfectly. The Coen Bros. could not have done anything else and made this film as well. The soundtrack (or lack there of) in NCFOM sets up the suspenseful moments so well that as an audience member you find yourself jumping constantly throughout the duration. Where music drowns out much of the sounds throughout a film, NCFOM uses little to none and creates the most realistic feeling of terror I have ever seen in a film.
Bardem's character begins as a completely unpredictable psychopath and by the end the viewer gains a twisted understanding of his logic. We become so engulfed with the film's characters that when an unexpected moment comes we forget to view it through the eye's of the character who is discovering what most films show (e.g. Bell comes across Moss at the motel). Bell doesn't know what has happened and we are not meant to either. The viewer simply sees the aftermath and is only offered the explanation given by the film's characters. The film's true main character is meant to be Tommy Lee Jones's Sheriff Bell. He is not able to understand why things such as these happen and therefore feels lost and almost helpless, hence the title No Country for Old Men. I think the lack of explanations for events that occur throughout are part of what makes this film so great.
Don't go into this film with expectations of resolution because there isn't any as is in life. Take it for what it is and give praise to a pair of filmmaker's that have given us this gift that we can watch time and again.