Don't read anything into it just take it as it is a great story.

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2008)

No Country For Old Men is first and foremost a story. It's meant to reflect real life and how things often play out in real life. Bad Things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people like a toss of a coin. The movie opens with a Hunter superbly played by Josh Brolin stumbling upon a drug deal gone bad and discovering a suitcase full of money 2 million dollars to be exact. He takes the money and suddenly everything changes for him from good to bad to terrifying. A killer who wants his money stalks him and no one stands in his way for very long think of the grim reaper with a very bad haircut. and you'll come close to Javier Bardem's KIller. Tommy Lee Jones is as close to excellence as any actor can be in this movie he delivers a old world point of view as a tired sheriff who wants to retire but is suddenly given a case that has too many dead bodies and a man on the run in need of protection and he feels powerless. This role was made for Tommy Lee Jones deadpan delivery and if he said he doesn't have a sense of humor he lied it comes across very subtly in his acting. The Coens's have made a movie as close to an Real Life event as possible. Yes The ending may be unsatisfying for some but to me it made perfect sense. In Real life we do not often get the endings we want just the ones we deserve. But see it and judge it for yourself. A masterful stroke of film-making This one can actually lay claim to being the Citizen Kane of the 21st century. It's flawed and it's story takes you into many other directions until it reaches it's point just like life. Fantastic and chilling and very worth while seeing again and again if only for Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem's masterful performances.