Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in DVD
- Released on: 2008-03-11
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English, Spanish, French
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 122 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Not that there aren’t moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife (Kelly Macdonald) he’s going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On the way from El Paso to Mexico, he discovers he’s being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh (an eerily calm Javier Bardem). Chigurh’s weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way–or loses a coin toss (as far as he’s concerned, bad luck is grounds for death). Just as Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a World War II vet, is on Moss’s trail, Chigurh’s former colleague, Wells (Woody Harrelson), is on his. For most of the movie, Moss remains one step ahead of his nemesis. Both men are clever and resourceful–except Moss has a conscious, Chigurh does not (he is, as McCarthy puts it, “a prophet of destruction”). At times, the film plays like an old horror movie, with Chigurh as its lumbering Frankenstein monster. Like the taciturn terminator, No Country for Old Men doesn’t move quickly, but the tension never dissipates. This minimalist masterwork represents Joel and Ethan Coen and their entire cast, particularly Brolin and Jones, at the peak of their powers. –Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Entertaining But…
Was a little over the top with the violence. Don’t have to see blood running constantly. Also, the ending was kind of abrupt. If you want to see a true, cold psychopath – this is definitely your type of movie. The only character that was a bit boring was Tommy Lee Jones – didn’t really get is character.
Better than I expected.
I expected nothing much more than a blood bath, but it was way better than that. Snappy dialog, sly humor, great scenery and well acted by all. What’s to not like?
I probably would have missed this movie entirely, if so much fuss hadn’t been made over it, because of the way it was presented as “nothing but violence.” Not true!
No Country for Old Men
I returned this product for two reasons. (1) I pre-ordered the item and I recevied it 8 days after the items released. (2) The dvd was $3 cheaper at a local store, and I was tired of waiting. The movie itself was fantastic. I gave it the low rating solely based on service which I have not been pleased with on recent purchased. BY the way, NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM ONE OF AMAZONS OUTSIDE VENDORS. THERE IS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RETURN POLICIES BLOW.
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