Terrific saga. Not to be missed!

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2008)

Joel and Ethan Coen cunningly adapts a story by Cormac MaCarthy that is set in 1980s West Texas. A beginning with so much anticipation; and a fade to black finale with your's truly expounding...s^@t! Llewelyn Moss(Josh Brolin)is a redneck slave to his resources that while hunting in the dusty Texas desert stumbles upon a drug deal gone real bad. Bodies of Mexican gangsters bullet-ridden and swarmed by flies lay by expended weapons. Moss coolly ignores a damn pickup load of drugs, but eagerly grabs a grip on a briefcase full of $2 million in $100 bills. He doesn't realize that he will soon be chased by a psychotic hit-man, Anton(Javier Bardem). This is the most methodical, ruthless, no nonsense killer in movie history. One unstoppable bad ass. Small town Sheriff Ed Tom Bell(Tommy Lee Jones)personally knows how determined and crazy Anton is and will try to track down Llewelyn and save him if possible. At the same time joining in the chase is the high dollar bounty hunter Carson Wells(Woody Harrelson), who is hired to stop Anton. Desert landscapes are photographed beautifully. The violence is bitter and most definite.
Llewelyn is too damn stubborn for his own good. He seems to not know the meaning of quit. He is a welder by trade, but $2 million in a briefcase means retirement. Anton is ultimate in regard to being the most psycho killer to take unnerving joy in his obsession with everyone's destiny and gives the flip of a coin a whole new meaning. Sheriff Bell is pretty much borderline old codger with pride in the old school of enforcing the law. Wells is cocky, fearless and not too afraid of death. The murder rate is brisk and guaranteed to speed your pulse. Also in the cast: Kelly Macdonald, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin and Stephen Root. Thanks to the Cohen brothers for this bleak guilty pleasure.