Good? Yes. Best Picture Worthy? Not Even Close

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2016)

No Country for Old Men follows a man as he stumbles upon a case of money and takes it for himself. Meanwhile, a psychopathic killer hunts him down for said money, while the sheriff goes looking for both of them in order to protect the man with the money.
For the most part the acting was good. Josh Brolin was good, Javier Bardem is good, Tommy Lee Jones is fine for his whole maybe thirty minutes of screen time. The performances aren't spectacular, but they're better than average for sure. Most of them, anyway. The characters themselves aren't horribly complex, even Bardem's character wasn't. There wasn't a lot to the characters, so it was hard for the actors to pull off anything amazing.
The way the ending was presented was both unique and unexpected, and wasn't at all what I expected.
There were plenty of cool set-ups and reasonably suspenseful fights, even if they were mostly unproductive.
While most every line of dialogue was well written, there were a handful that popped out where it was blatantly obvious that the characters weren't talking to anyone other than the audience. They were written so that the audience would have a better idea of what was happening.
Sometimes things happened or worked out without any explanation as to how. Sure, there were some parts that the audience could just assume, but the question of 'how' often came to mind. On top of that sometimes things just didn't make sense when they really should have. They were little things, but they impacted the movie regardless.
The characters had pretty thick accents, and often talked quietly in said accents, making it almost impossible to understand them from time to time. Sure, I could turn on subtitles, but this is a movie where the spoken language is English, and as an English speaker I really shouldn't have to do that.
Overall No Country for Old Men is, while a good movie, nothing to freak out about. Sure, it's good, it's well-written and pretty well acted, but that's really about it. There really isn't a lot to appreciate about this movie, but there's plenty to complain about. I don't see why people love this movie so much, it's honestly pretty forgettable. In short, it was good, but nowhere near best picture worthy. In the end I'd still recommend this movie. With the amount of praise it's received you'll probably still love it.