No Country for Old Men is a Great Flick in a Country of Bad Movies

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2007)

With so much crap churned out of Hollywood month after month lately it's refreshing to see a movie that actually piques my interest.
Unlike most films I've see lately, where I can see the ending coming miles away like a freight train barreling down the tracks blowing it's horn, this movie's ending completely threw me for a loop and left me feeling a little betrayed. However, any movie that can invoke an emotion other than cheap laughs or "oohs" and "ahs" at the pretty CG action sequences is impressive.
Josh Brolin plays "Llewelyn Moss" who is a simple Texas welder who lives in a trailer with his wife, and stumbles upon a fortune in a botched drug-deal while hunting in the Texas hill country. Although it's ill-begotten gains for Llewelyn you sympathize with his character and you really find yourself hoping they can better their lives with this money and maybe move up to a double-wide trailer or something.
Then comes "Anton Chigurh" played by Javier Bardem, who Llewelyn refers to as Sugar, the main antagonist in the movie, a psychopath after Llewelyn and the money. Wielding an oxygen-tank-air-gun-type thing that blows deadbolts and doorknobs off, and a shotgun equipped with a silencer he is easily my favorite character. And to answer Josh Brolin's question to Woody Harrelson in the movie, "Who's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?" Yes. Yes he is.