A Sea full of Sand

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2008)

Latest work from the Coen works as expected, or a little less. As much as you can hope on deep interiorizing, the most explored characters are the ultimately classical versus between Good and Evil. Bardem personifies Anton Chigurh, a man with no hints of humanity that kills because it's convenient and because he can. He never smiles, he talks clearly and with a profound, steady voice. He is the unrelenting evil Coen's want to explore.
Although the premise follows Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) and his escape from Chigur's deadly hands, Brolin must not take that big of applause, neither big protagonism. His acting is hard, unrevealing. Instead, Tommy Lee Jones is textured as a sheriff that avoids violence, in a town where only dust and cactus gather. But his deep, extremely deep sensation of disturbia, nearly death and sense of duty is worth the ticket.
Within it's minimalistic reach, no soundtrack, long determined pauses, "No Country..." accomplishes. It's a studied character piece, that I believe will be overgrown by oblivion within the pass of times; as it's popularity is within being unconventional, slow and impervious to common places.