emphatic and picturesque but really powerful

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2008)

This is really a masterpiece, probably the best film among all the Coen's brother's works, and deserved all the Academy Awards it just won; Brolin gives a really perfect performance as Moss, Bardem is literally terrific in the role of Chigurh, a crazy predator showing craziness for two and a half hours, Tommy Lee Jones as well is outstanding. It's an extremely original perspective of life, violence, loneliness, regrets, never boring, though a bit disturbing due to the terrifying violence. The underlying message of No Country for Old Men is also the unpredictability of real life, the set of opportunities we are missing and we have missed. Think the power of the movie is enhanced by the appropriate locations where it was shot, an outline of rural and backward America, along with violent and dangerous Mexico. I'd have expected a different finale, clearer at least, whereas this one might leave the onlooker with some doubts. Nevertheless it's surely an extraordinary story.