My favorite movie

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2019)

This is my favorite movie. There is no flaws in it, and the one movie that can always successfully put me in the mood it demands. Where to start? Javier Bardem creates an amazing, scary, realistic villain in Anton Chigough that takes your breath away at every turn. Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, and the other actors also have great performances and set realistic characters with real motivations.
Now I have to get into the stuff with the Coen Brothers. These guys are experts in trusting their audience to build suspense. Both the gas station scene and the hotel shootout are perhaps the two most tense and interesting scenes in cinema. The fact that there is no score really does help to build tension to them in a way that's different than most. Not only that but the editing here is top notch, and obviously Rodger Deakins's cinematography is really well done. You can't really have no complaints.
To top it all off you really have an interesting, engaging plot that is hard to get a hand on. Every time you start to get a grip on where the story is going, and realize what is about to happen, the Coen's switch it up and keep you guessing while also still making sense from a character's perspective. All this on top of a relevant, interesting subtext that stays with you after the film.
No film is truly perfect, including this one (the part with Woody Harrison in the Mexican hospital is not quite up to par with the rest of the film) but NCFOM is the closest I've seen.