No place for anybody

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2008)

Another dark and very bloody story by the Coen brothers. But this time it's about symbolism and philosophy. And entertainment.
This is about fighting the devil (Javier Bardem), which here appears as a character from some comic book. It makes him more easy to understand. This movie is about confronting evil by intelligence or by morality. Beside it all stands the sheriff (great work by Tommy Lee Jones) as the commentator and he says what you're mostly miss in these kind of films. Some of the characters are dreadful. It's not, I repeat not, acceptable what they do.
The camera work is sometimes splendid. But the story doesn't hold together and of course this a speculation in violence. This is not just a piece of art, the selling ambitions are obvious.