Great film, Bardem is spine chillingly good.Id have trimmed some of Tommy Lee Jones' scenes though.

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2009)

Of all the Coen brothers films i have happened across this has to be the one i found most entertaining.The Coen films tend to have an offbeat nature that will never appeal too the mass populace but i feel this is their most mainstream film.Javier Bardem is great in the central role,his performance is spine chillingly well delivered.If ever Arnold Scwarzenegger cant be on Terminator duty Javier has proved here that he is the man for the job.This film does actually share a lot in common with The Terminator.The thing i didn't particularly like about the film was Tommy Lee Jones scenes.I could see the relevance of his character but i struggled to grasp why some of his scenes went on as long as they did.They said nothing and only served to make the film feel uneven. Maybe thats what the Coens wanted,maybe they got the film into the editing suite and thought, this is way too mainstream , lets put some random scenes of pointless drifting dialogue to make it look different. Which ever way you slice it,most of Jones' scenes could and should have been trimmed. Otherwise this film is great and i encourage you to see it if not only for Javier Bardem.