My Thoughts

Rating: 10/10 (5 December 2007)

Quite simply, the best film in a decade or more, and the new standard for modern movie making. A simple man-hunt in the hands of the Cohens unfolds beautifully, and searingly on the screen, all while captivating, and jolting the audience. The heroes are flawed, and yet the villainy of the film is complex and perfected, both of which add to the fatality that flows through its entirety. Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of his life, in a role that the viewer can't help but feel he was born to play, and yet the film is dominated by a truly terrifying Javier Bardem. The acting by Brolin and Bardem gives the dramatic tone of the movie the upper hand over the dead to rights action that really peppers most of the scenes. The Cohens' masterpiece, it is precisely the tragedy that movie goers have been unknowingly pining for, since at least "American Beauty".