A Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2012)

When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen entitled,No Country for Old Men.The film was based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same title.It features Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. Themes of fate, conscience and circumstance re-emerge that the Coen brothers have previously explored in Blood Simple and Fargo.
Llewelyn Moss has just stumbled into the find of a lifetime. Upon discovering a bullet-strewn pickup truck surrounded by the corpses of dead bodyguards, Moss uncovers two million dollars in cash and a substantial load of heroin stashed in the back of the vehicle. Later, as an enigmatic killer who determines the fate of his victims with the flip of a coin sets out in pursuit of Moss, the disillusioned Sheriff Bell struggles to contain the rapidly escalating violence that seems to be consuming his once-peaceful Lone Star State town.
Bolstered by powerful lead performances from its cast,it finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel.make their finest thriller since Fargo. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but it is their quietest, most existential film yet.Finally,what makes the movie a masterpiece, however, is not the Coens' supreme command of their craft in these scenes, but their willingness to embrace the resigned world view of McCarthy's novel.Truly,a masterpiece!!!