The Best Film of The Year!

Rating: 10/10 (29 February 2008)

I have no idea why the preceding few reviews have been so derogatory towards this film which truly is incredible from every perspective. No Country For Old Men (N.C.F.O.M.) deservedly won it's 4 academy awards for Best Picture, Director(s), Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor. NCFOM is a gritty, dark, southern Gothic thriller adapted by the brilliant Coens from McCarthy's visceral novel. The Performances are superb throughout, Brolin, Jones, and Harrelson are great and Javier Bardem simply becomes the psychopathic Anton Chigurh who represents a relentless evil and in a way an amoral judge. People say that it's easy to play a psycho, well when one embodies a deranged mind so completely subtle nuances, idiosyncrasies and all then a praiseworthy performance results (remeber Hopkins' Lecter and Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes). In essence what i'm saying is, you will never forget Bardem's role after watching this film. The Coens yet again manage to fill this grizzly story with their unique humour especially when Jones and Harrelson are on screen, delivering some great one-liners. What must be commended most of all is the brothers' directing, coupled with a stunning, sun-scorched cinematography of the Texas wasteland, every shot in the film is a work of art. Every frame seems to be utterly planned out with amazing composition and style, hats off! I only wrote this review because i went to see this film 3 times in the cinema in one week, which is a first for me, and i could not stand to have people giving ridiculous scores of 1/10 to this masterpiece, simply because they did not absorb anything it has to offer (and it has plenty!) So 10/10 to the best picture of the year!