Llewlyn Moss hunting antelope near the Rio Grande stumbles upon a transaction gone ... more
horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies several kilos of heroin and a caseload of cash he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter he knows will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?'"No Country For Old Men" is a compelling harrowing disturbing sad endlessly surprising and resonant novel' - "Spectator". '"No Country For Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year' - "Independent on Sunday". 'A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue perfect for a lazy Sunday' - "The Times". 'An utterly absorbing chilling tale ...One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction' - "Herald". 'A fast powerful read steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - "Financial Times".
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The Academy Award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's violent poetic and darkly funny ... more
crime novel No Country For Old Men sees The Coen Brothers produce their finest thriller to date. Set amongst the wild empty and imposing landscape of 1980s Texas No Country For Old Men is a masterly tale of the good the deranged and the outright doomed. Approaching retirement Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is one of the last links to the history of Texas' Old West and the men who patrolled the frontiers of decency and lawlessness. These days though he feels less and less able to comprehend the new breed of violent criminals that have drifted into his jurisdiction. Violent men like Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem): an enigmatic psychopathic and obsessively compulsive killer who determines the fate of his victims with a quick flip of a coin. Chigurh an ex-special-forces operative turned hit man has been hired to track down two million dollars in cash taken from the scene of a drug-deal gone awry and whoever spirited it away. That man is Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin): a financially struggling hardened Vietnam veteran who stumbled upon the money and a substantial amount of heroin amongst a sea of bloody corpses and a bullet-strewn truck whilst hunting antelope in the desert near the Mexican border. McCarthy's melancholic and muscular prose is a perfect match for the Coen brothers' unique brand of poker-faced irony. The narrative ellipses entwine with the Coens' modern noir nonchalance and dark humour to highlight and explore the similarities and differences of Moss Chigurh and Bell as they try to track one another down. With dark intelligence and an unstoppable array of sly wit No Country For Old Men is reminiscent of Joel and Ethan Coen's early neo-noir motion picture Blood Simple and their much-lauded Academy Award winning Fargo and is a cat-and-mouse chase epic that engages and excites from beginning to end.
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Llewelyn Moss hunting antelope near the Rio Grande instead finds men shot dead a load ... more
of heroin and more than million in cash. Taking the money out he knows will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? 'This is a monster of a book. Cormac McCarthy achieves monumental results by a kind of drip-by-drip process of ruthless simplicity. It will leave you panting and awestruck' - Sam Shepard.'Imagine the Coen brothers doing a self-conscious riff on Sam Peckinpah and filming a fast violent story about a stone-cold killer a small-town sheriff and an average Joe who stumbles across a leather case filled with more than million in hot drug money' - "International Herald Tribune". 'A profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered novel ...No Country for Old Men is a page-turner' - "Washington Post".
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Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film ... more
yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even West Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond - right up to its heart-stopping final moment.
Advantages: Gripping Storyline, Well Acted, Well Written, Well Directed Disadvantages: None
mentioned above Javier Bardem won an Academy Award for best supporting actor, this was highly deserved as I said earlier, as he played his part brilliantly, however it did not end here, NoCountry For OldMen won 3 more Academy Awards, they were; best director and best adapted screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen and it also won the coveted best picture award, so if my review does not get you to watch this great film, then maybe that will!
DVD Bonus Features
Also included on the DVD are the usual extras you get, including a program entitled 'the making of nocountry for oldmen' this is very good and if you enjoy the film it is well worth watching. There is also a short program about working with the Coen's and a diary of a Country Sheriff, these two are ok and give a luittle bit of insight into the two subjects and are worth watching ...
Advantages: Thriller, good story, great characters Disadvantages: A bit of a blood bath!
NoCountry for OldMen
There are no clean getaways!!
I have been wanting to see this movie ever since the Oscars at the beginning of this year. This film won four Academy Awards including best picture so I was very interested to see what it was like.
It is directed by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan who are themselves 4 time academy award winners so I knew that it would be different and hopefully good. The film came out in 2007 and was actually adapted from the novel of the same name by CormacMcCarthy.
The genre of this film is crime thriller. I would also say it is quite a physiological thriller as the drama was very nail biting, edge of your seat stuff. I have to say that if you are at all squeamish or jumpy do not watch this film as it was rather violent and in some places quite shockingly violent. After some ...
Advantages: It's a Coen Brothers film Disadvantages: It's not as good as other Coen Brothers films
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JC: [Laughs]
EC: [Laughs]
JC: [Laughs]
EC: Sigh. Who else?
JC: Josh Brolin, he might get pretty big soon but for now he's cheap as chips.
EC: Jackie Brown?
JC: No, Bargain Hunt.
EC: -
JC: Never mind. So, cowboys mean no dialogue, that cinematographer guy can make it all look good, Tommy Lee Jones holds it all together and the rest of the parts can be filled by gimps hanging around the studio.
EC: You've done Pulp Fiction.
JC: I just like saying 'gimps'. Why does the sheriff have to be old?
EC: That's kind of the hook. I'm going to call it 'NoCountry for OldMen' and the sheriff will mooch through the film bemoaning the fact that he can't relate to the modern criminal mind and the excessive yet pointless violence he continues to encounter.
JC: That sounds pretty lame.
EC: Don't worry, that ...
A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
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