Intense

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2017)

In the first few minutes we see a death. This quick start to the film gets the audience engaged right from the off and makes them want to carry on watching it. Despite this, the next 45 mins - 1 hour it slows down a lot and not much happens.
The best aspect of this film was the amount of silences used during the movie. The silence build up suspense and tension and it usually ends in an anticlimax keeping the audience always on their seat and it forces them to always be prepared as they don't know what is going to happen next. Anticlimax or climax?
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is a antagonist who is calm but extremely intimidating due to his relaxed tone of voice and actions on everything. Early on in the film he goes to a shop and he puts the shop owners fate in a coin toss. Heads or tails? His unusual nature is one in which the audience cannot predict. We learn to know that he is a savage.
At the conclusion of the film Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) (the man getting hunted down by Anton) is killed by Chigurh and what was very effective about the scene was we didn't see the death occur. All we hear is gunshots and it makes the audience confused as they don't know who is shooting and who is being shot.
Overall, I didn't think the film was outstanding but the lack of non diagetic sound made the film better due to its natural feel.