Wow!

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2008)

I only just saw this movie on DVD, well after the Oscars, but my (belated) response is an unequivocal "Wow!". "No Country For Old Men" is like a slow, hypnotic, completely mesmerizing "Pulp Fiction". I was glued to the screen the entire time. It's like something Quentin Tarantino would create if he were on quaaludes and mushrooms combined. I'm a huge fan of the Coen Brothers ("The Big Lewbowski", "Raising Arizona", "Fargo", and "Intolerable Cruelty" are among my all-time favorites), and I'm thrilled they finally got their shining moment with this completely brilliantly conceived film! I'm not normally a fan of westerns, and how very slowly they usually seem to pan out, but this movie used every possible slow-moving scene to up the adrenaline one (or two, or three, or ten) more notch(es). Not to be overlooked was the ethical stance the movie took. The title itself bespoke what is a major problem in the world today: socio/psychopaths, and their unerring tendency to breed... With all these ultra-creepy, conscious-less people being born indiscriminately, it's no wonder this may end up "no country for old men"... Old men who actually have a sense of ethics and fair play. Old men who actually CARE. Wow! Great job boys!!!