What's so special about it ?

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2009)

After stumbling across a case of money among dead bodies, Llewelyn Moss thinks he can keep it quiet, but when silent killer Anton Chigurh locates Moss and his money, Vietnam veteran Moss makes a run for it. With bodies falling everywhere Anton goes, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with Llewelyn. Whilst all this is going on, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is overseeing the investigation and begins to see the country in a different light than it once was...No Country For Old Man was critically acclaimed, won 4 Oscars and (supposedly) established Joel and Etan Coen as two of the best directors of today, but I fail to see the brilliance in this film. I don't think this is a good film, let alone be considered one of the best movies of all time. I find the film to be extremely pretentious and overrated. Both Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem deliver great performances,specially the last as a blood-cold psychopathic killer with some bad ass weapons but in dire need of an haircut, but if you put that aside, then what do we got here? A simple western-thriller. A chase between a killer and its prey. What's so special about it ? I'll say this; the cinematography is good, but that alone plus two good performances doesn't make a great movie. I mean, what is it, what is seducing the critics and everyone in general? Is the southern accent? Is the tension and the violence caused by Anton? Well, I have no idea but for me No Country For Old Men is below average. There's nothing great about it, there's nothing special about it. Its a pretty straight-forward thriller that happens to take place in Texas.
6/10