Overrated, Irritating, and a shame..

Rating: 1/10 (20 September 2008)

I love the works of the Coen's body of work. I love that in their careers they have managed to create films that are almost polar opposites from their previous works. They always craft fantastic stories with great characters..
Which is why No Country is disappointing as hell.
The story is all over the place, the Tommy Lee Jone's sheriff is basically useless, and the build to what seemed to be the eventual showdown between Bardem and Brolin's character is turned sideways and thrown out the window for some pseudo philosophical BS..
This movie is in the same vein of Burn After Reading, a movie that's really about nothing.. Except Burn After Reading was far better at being a movie about nothing.
In the end, this movie did nothing but anger me to no end. It built up so well, only to drop out about 3/4 in.