Ultimately unsatisfying

Rating: 4/10 (27 April 2008)

No Country For Old Men has a very cool antagonist, I can't stress that enough, the bad guy is awesome. Apart from that I found the entire cinematic experience to be drawn out, largely uninteresting, and entirely forgettable. The movie suffers from what I call "Master and Commander Syndrome", a term meaning that the pacing is largely unsuitable for the supposed tempo of the film story.
I am well aware that short reviews such as this generally leave themselves open to ridicule such as "you just didn't get it" or "did you even bother to watch the entire movie". The answer to both is 'yes, I did', and I found myself bored and in the need to watch an episode of Studio 60 just so that I could go to bed knowing that the entire evening wasn't wasted.