Beautiful, elegant and chilling

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2016)

If you hadn't told me this was a Coen brother's film I never would have been able to guess it. The trademark banter is gone, music somber and entire scenery set to a sepia tone. One of the most charismatic actors (Javier Bardem) takes a leap and succeeds exponentially on scaring the absolute crap out of his audience. This film succeeds on every level, where I usually find myself losing focus and checking the time I was glued to the screen to find out what happened next, literally upset that it was over when it was, I just wanted more. I don't think I would change almost anything about this film, it's beautiful but haunting and exceptionally shot and acted with the story playing out almost second to the scenery and actors.