Very powerful Coen Bros. film

Rating: 9/10 (7 November 2011)

No Country for Old Men is a powerful thriller filmed to perfection by Joel and Ethan Coen. The performances are searing but what really wins this film over is the Coens' inventive techniques in creating suspense, throwing in comic relief, and finally having a quirky but effective choreography of violence. It's a potent thriller full of great shots of the landscape and the suspense techniques intelligently use brutal violence and plenty of great camera work. Bardem gives his strongest performance of his career as the killer. The symbolism and cultural satire the Coens throw in is that of two filmmakers who know how to powerfully create both a violent and very humorous film in the same shot.