No Country For Old Men

Wow, that is all I can say, wow. The Coen brothers make good movies. My boy Chris described this movie as the companion piece to Fargo, which is pretty much right on the money. In the way that Fargo gave us a sneak peak into life of North Dakota police woman trying to solve a series of violent crimes while she is six months pregnant, No Country For Old Men takes into the life of an aging sherrif, Tommy Lee Jones, trying to cope with how Texas has changed over the years and if he is still the man to do this job.

No Country For Old Men is more about Sherrif Ed Tom Bell and his struggle to make sense of a world gone crazy than it is about satchel full of money and all the parties going after it. Though the story mostly is centered around the $2 million that Llewlyn Moss, James Brolin, finds and tries to get away with while Anton Chigurh, Javier Bardem, and bunch of Mexican bad guys try to track him down. Most of the action may be about this cat and mouse game, the sotry of Sherrif Bell is always apparent, his is the first and last voice we hear in the movie and his wit and demenour carries the film.

In stead of talking about all the things that are great in this movie, which are a plenty I will instead offer my one slight crytique. I would have perferred some back story on Brolin and Bardem's characters. These two did a majority of the running and gunning in this movie, asisde from Bardem being described a pschyopath and Brolin as a vietnam vet we don't get much about how they know how to do what they do. But again that is my one slight annoyance, other than that this movie was great, an excellent must see and definately top five this year.

GRADE - A