" What are you looking for? Something in the Dark. No one ever sees that "

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2009)

The Western is always in flux and with it the times. In this film " No Country for Old Men " the genre pushes the envelope of sanity. There is so much violence in Texas, that modern lawmen are at a loss to explain it all. Clint Eastwood states in one film, "We keep plugging the dike but the hole keeps getting bigger." That is most certainly true for this movie. An unemployed welder Llewelyn Moss, Josh Brolin) is out hunting antelope, stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong. Everyone involved in the massacre is dead leaving a couple of million dollars at the scene. Llewelyn takes the cash and heads for home, unaware the Mexican Mafia and American businessmen want it back. Moss soon learns Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) a Phychopathetic hit man is after him and on his trail is Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson) a troubleshooter trying to recover the money. Sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and his deputy arrive at the drug massacre and try and piece the murders together and discover so many people are killed the whole crime makes little sense. The movie itself is strange as there doesn't seems to be the standard Hero vs bad guy as all involved are creating the mayhem. It's fascinating as the dramatic action is everywhere like the confrontations which remind one of a train crash about to happen. A good film for anyone expecting something different from Hollywood. ****