Worst Film I've Ever Seen

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2009)

It is amazing to think how many awards this film picked up. I had heard bad things about this film but wanted to see it myself to make up my own mind. On the surface it may look nice. It's shot in beautiful countryside and at a very slow pace. I'm certain this slow pace is why some people rate the acting so highly. Indeed some of the performances are generally very good particularly Josh Brolin and some of the minor characters.
Tommy Lee Jones is his usual painful to watch self. That may be a personal niggle of mine but I would like to see someone argue a case for the purpose of either the entire film or the character of the Sheriff.
Some would say that in NCFOM the Coen Brothers have torn up the rule book of story telling, defied studio Hollywood etc.
I would say that they have not told a story at all. If my father had told me that story when I was a boy I would have said huh? Is that it? That's not a story.
That is the reason I give this film 1 out of 10. I feel robbed of my time and money. Nothing changes in the film. The film ends where it begins. I would liken it to the Matrix trilogy in one. Starts fantastically, much like the first matrix film. Then in the second act you feel it could be genius but then you find out in act 3 like the final Matrix film that in fact the whole exercise was a complete and utter waste of time. Nothing has changed from the beginning of the film to the end. Except of course a few grizzly deaths.
This film will leave you cold and rather like Javier himself has strangled you to death. Right now I think that may have been a more pleasurable experience.