"The Coen brothers have left their mark."
"No Country for old Men", written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, is both an inspired and distinguished acheivement to hit the screens in years.
The distinguished factor that falls into the film is supported by a great lead of actors. Joel and Ethan Coen have let off a cast that presents to us a different meaning in the film industry.
Josh Brolin, who plays Texan welder Llewelyn Moss, is the man behind all means to get through this "clean getaway" he put himself into and the same one he is trapped in, as he stumbles across a suitcase of millions in cash, on the outskirts of a dirty-done-cheap meet in the middle of the Texas emptiness. His portrayal of Moss is excellent and he gets the job done right in the face of danger from his prevailing enemy, which lets us all seem to be too cautious towards our endangered futures of hitmen and assassins alike.
Javier Bardem leads the way in the most confusing, scary, aspiring, and clever character to walk amongst the movie lines in a long long time. His portrayal of Anton Chigurgh is far beyond creativity, as he stalks his way to Moss ever so gruesomely. His silenced m22 shotgun adds great entertainment to the movie, killing off his Mexican victims who stumble in his way. With a low conscience level and hardly any gratitude at all, Chigurgh is interesting and spooky in one. He will be remembered, for his goofy '80s cut and his average ol' west cowboy style apparal as the most unique hitman to walk the reels.
Tommy Lee Jones, who portrays Sherriff Ed Tom Bell, a desolute, lonely, aging Texas officer, leads the cast as the perfect story teller and right hand man to the film. As he opens the film with his regular in-an-out story of his past relishes and family heirlooms throughout the land, we notice that his failures as a deputy leads to his undermining throughout the story. Jones plays the character spot on and leaves no worries or questions of protecting an endangered life to no costs.
The setting of the film is absolute perfection for a story such as this one. The empty, sandy, grassy and isolated locations through out western Texas is simply magnificent to unfold the story in. The lonely and aged towns and the droll, 1970s vehicles populated with in add a fantastic tone to the story, as do the storefronts and cheap rundown gas stations, which add good animosity to the action sequences.
Recommended for the mind to understand what the story is laying before you, "No Country for old Men" is a heart racer and a heart stopper, all the way to the end credits,and the sounds of the deadly silenced shotgun buck shots fired at the least expected moments will give you shrills and a heavy seat belt warning to your couch or chair.
The mark that the Coen brothers left and were aiming for has been fired at and bull'seyed.
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