I've Been Had!!!

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2008)

We all make decisions and have to live with them be them good or bad. I bougth the movie No Country for Old Men sight unseen. One of the reasons, I have to admit, is because it was written and directed by the Coen Bro. I like their output. And secondly by all the positive reviews from a raft of film critics. And the awards being heaped on the film. All of this led me to believe that I would be purchasing one of the Coen's gems. I was mistaken. For me the film sucks. Big time. All that blood and bodies and in the end nothing to show for it. Just the homicidal manic walking away from the scene of his latest murder. And when Tommy Lee Jones rambled his esoteric poem and the movie ended I was flabbergasted. This the second time a trash movie has been given the Academy Award, the first being the God awful The Departed. Makes one wonder is this what Hollywood is coming to. Once the Academy Award meant something but to keep giving the Best Picture to trash makes me not wanting to watch the awards altogether. In the end I still blame myself, I should have checked with IMDb in the first place.