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| Margaret Pickering, 26 Mar 2008 |
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| Much has been written about this film. It has been acclaimed by the critics and rejected as "disappointing by a few.
The plot is simple enough adapted from Comac McCarthy's novel and given the treatment by the Coen brothers. A combination which should,at very least, produce a "good" film
However "No Country For Old Men" is an exceptional film.
The mood is set with superb, atmospheric shots of the Texan landscape.
Llewellyn Moss [Josh Brolin] is out hunting and in this unforgiving landscape discovers the fly ridden bodies of a brutal slaughter. The bloody and shocking result of a failed drugs deal. Among the corpses he finds the booty - a bag containing some $2million.
He takes it and from that moment he is a condemned man, a hunted man; his fate is sealed.
On his track is a killer Anton Chigurh [Javier Barden]arguably one of the most chilling psycopaths portrayed on film. An intelligent ruthless killer, who decides who lives and who dies with the toss of a coin. Barden superbly portrays the cold, unemotional, relentless determination of a natural killer.
Tommy Lee Jones is perfect as the sherrif. Nearing retirement and world weary he finds himself caught up in this sequence of bloodshed and violence, which to him is mystifying and incomprehensible.
There is nothing superfluous in this film.
The script is sharp edged with black humour,there is no relience on special effects and the total lack of music enhances the feeling of foreboding.
Yes, the ending is unpredictible and and may leave some feeling disappointed or even frustrated,but all round this is a "must see" film with superb acting and directing and photography This is not a film to enjoy but rather a film to experience.
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