no country for old men

Rating: 2/10 (11 March 2008)

When I first saw this movie I was quite pleased and thought that it may be one excellent film. Most probably I was overwhelmed by its beautiful cinematography. Then I realised that the film is pretty boring and completely empty. It reminds me of some books by Aldous Huxley, 'a minor master'  both consisting of one 'Idea' masquerading as good art. In both cases it feels utterly preposterous; aiming high but reaching low. The ideas here are nothing new, that is, chances and 'accidentality' of human fortune or misfortune, something Herodotus nicely wrote about, and of course, struggle between good and evil. Now the problem here is that there are no engaging people in this film; Chigurh is a too abstract an idea to be interesting to the slightest, the rest are not worth mentioning  they are so dull. Just to mention that Tommy Lee Jones is one of many actors who are only good at playing themselves, and quite frankly I don't think that I'll ever go to see any more films with Woody Harrelson. And of course the title is completely ridiculous  it may be attractive to some teenager who would be fascinated by these writer/directors' 'insight' into obscure literature of W. B. Yeats; but frankly I feel it as some empty 'grand' words with no meaning. All in all, this film is nearly complete waste of time (save the cinematography, like I said before) and another missed opportunity at Oscars. Two out of ten