| No Country For Old Men [2008] | ![No Country For Old Men [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jqVo%2BHIHL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 43
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 117 minutes
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437942838
ASIN: B00147AJQ8
Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 2008
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 veteran who needs 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 veteran, 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
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 no country for old mn August 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
a great movie right up to the last 15 minutes, left me dissapointed and feeling cheated. heres a tip hollywood, every story should have an ending, it makes it so much more enjoyable for the viewer. you know the one whom the movie is made for.
 Simply superb... August 14, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
...but I'm sure it'll go over the heads of many. How anyone could give this 1 star is astonishing!
If good westerns were made today! August 13, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
After hearing plenty said about this movie, I finally settled down with the popcorn to watch it. As the closing credits rolled, the popcorn sat untouched on the arm of my sofa, saved from its fate by my open mouthed appreciation of this engrossing work of art.
Played out in the opening like a spaghetti western and with less dialogue than Arnie used in the first Terminator film, you will follow this murderous psychopath from one scene to the next tensing with every spine chilling set piece that the brothers Coen push in our direction.
No Country for Old Men is an atypical thriller in that format and formula are conspicuous by their absence and surely this masterpiece is better for it.
In my own humble opinion, the lead 'baddy' would be even more suitable in a full blown horror movie and the depth of the actor's (Javier Bardem) talents are deep indeed. I fully intend to search out a list of his credits to see if he has been this good in any other films.
Thinking about it though; I may not sleep so well tonight.
Lost a star for the ending. August 11, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Most of the reviewers have already pointed out about the ending to this film. I don't care if people think i 'missed the point', i thought the ending fizzled out and left me unsatisfied. Which is a shame because up until that point the film was great! it flowed at a decent pace, had some nail biting moments and some great action scenes. I know it was based on a book but sadly i don't feel inclined to read the book after watching the film. It was entertaining and i can cope with some of the loose ends but just feel the last 20 mins really ruined what up until that point was a great film.
p.s the assassins haircut is truly awful!
Wait... that's it? August 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie won't so neatly divide as much as it will dissect it's viewing audience, which is as it should be, a good movie will force you to think about it as you leave, a great movie might have you thinking about it long after you've left.
I watched this movie on it's release in UK cinemas, and was expecting a western given no prior knowledge about it, and so I entered the cinema with no real interest given I'm no fan of the western.
I walked from the cinema almost 6 months ago, realising my assumptions were wrong, utterly wrong.
I still think about it on occassion. The movie beguiled me upon first watch, and still does with repeat viewings.
It's not for the fact that Tommy Lee-Jones, plays an ineffable novelty texan with panache and a touch of parody that makes his character all the more likeable, or Josh Brolin's modern cowboy, also with a bare hint of parody.
It's not even Kelly MacDonalds flawless performance as Josh Brolin's wife, or the light comedy relief of Beth Grant as Kelly MacDoanlds bolshy and humourless and inadvertently (to herself at least) comical mother, nor is it Woddy Harrelson's breif but important appearance playing... Well, Woody Harrelson in a ten gallon if I'm honest
Some would say it's Javier Bardem's character, the ultra psycopathic, unhinged but so confidently assured of his own warped virtues 'Anton Chirgurh' (watch that character name go down in movie legend), skulking around the landscape in doggedly single minded pursuit of goal.
While all these characters contribute massively to the movie's appeal (it probably is worth watching for that alone), it is the unexpected twist that makes the movie so special.
The application of pure, harsh realism to the end of the movie is what has kept me thinking of the movie, and subsequently giving it repeat airings.
It will make you think and think, and if it doesn't, then I guess you didn't appreciate the stark beauty of this movie for what it was, so quick! go watch it some more.
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