Old men in the country.

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2016)

The following is a guest post by Jimmy O.:
This film opens up in the Wild West or the outback. You aren't told where they are. It's not a dealbreaker, but it would have been nice to have known. Sure, Tommy Jones and Josh Brolin had Southern accents, but they were fake accents. They could have been Australians using American accents. After some beautiful shots of the scenery, we see Josh Brolin being Josh Brolin in his best role of his acting career. He misses a shot and injures an animal and allows it to remain living and injured. He shrugs it off and then finds a bunch of dead people and a person who was alive. The person begs for water, and Josh says, "sorry, partner" and takes off. He then finds a bunch of money and drives back home. This is where the flick kicks off.
We are then introduced to the big bad wolf. He doesn't do a lot of huffing. He's simply big and bad. And a wolf. He's actually a man, but it's an analogy. His name is Javier Bardem. That's the actors name. You don't actually find out what the villains name is until later on in the flick (and it's a lame name). This is beneficial to his mystique; no one lives to tell that they crossed his path. His role in this flick is not to be evil. He is the judge, jury, and executioner (in that order) in the wild west of the outback. Sure, he does a lot of killing, but someone took his money (Josh!) I don't blame the guy. If someone took my money, I'd do the same thing.
As the film drags on, you find yourself rooting for Jar. This poor guy travels so much just to get back his money, and the guy that stole it is running around not even spending it! At least put some in the stock market, maybe even go and leave the country with your wife. This was a major flaw in the film, but if any of this happened there would be no old men chasing each other in the country. This is a film about 2 old men. The third old man is trying to figure out what in tarnation is going on. Tommy Jones plays a seasoned sheriff who just wants to sit back and drink a glass of milk. He can't do that though, there are old men chasing each other. He doesn't step in between them though, because all he does is brainstorm throughout the movie. He added a lot of power to this film with his quiet, but cowboy demeanor. He proved to be the oldest man in the country however, because he was too slow to fix anything.
The message in this film is that we need to own up to our actions, and suffer the consequences.*Cachink!*