Oh, everything was soo well made till the last half of hour. . . They could do it better, or director wanted to show us other side of story, that "greed of money" dont takes you down.
A fantastic movie; even-paced, gripping at some points, placid at others, and with a strong philosophical perspective which makes for one thought-provoking film worth multiple viewings. It's ambiguous ending might take the first-time viewer by surprise, leaving them scratching their head. But I think that it is an appropriate ending because it follows the movie's enduring theme and ends on a succinct summation of that theme. On another note, I like the film because there is nothing obscene and the dialogue has minimal profanity. There is a considerable amount of blood and violence, but nothing gratuitous or overly graphic. From an artistic perspective, I love how there is no score; there is no background music which helps accentuate the realism of the film and draw the viewer in closer. It was a really effective choice. The Coen brothers really did a very good job overall with this film.
Javier Bardem got all the attention for this role (not that it wasn’t undeserved), but for me Tommy Lee Jones is the heart of this movie. His character’s existential weariness had to have been such a difficult thing to communicate, but it seems so effortless. The film is pretty faithful to McCarthy’s source material so he deserves a lot of the credit–but Bardem and Jones elevate this beyond anything a book could accomplish.
I waited far, far too long to see this. I'd give this a perfect score if it weren't for what I think is a mistake made as the film concludes. The gritty, dusty Texas desert is the backdrop for an unforgettable tale of moral depravity and senseless violence. It's difficult to determine who's good, who's bad, and who's entirely psychotic, but that is the fun of this film. And it is a lot of fun.
Every character is likable in their own demented way. I could not wait for crazy Chigurh to appear on screen. He's nearly a ghost in his pursuit of Moss and he is absolutely merciless with everyone he encounters. He does, however, manage to engage his future victims in some of the most intriguing exchanges of dialogue I've heard in ages. Chigurh is a bad guy. No question about it.
I'm not a high brow film connoisseur by any stretch, but the Coen's complex yet addicting films make me feel like one.
“No Country for Old Men” is a simple but carefully constructed cat and mouse thriller. It puts aside the goofiness and over-the-top dialogues that made the Coen Brothers famous to instead deliver raw violence and nail-biting suspense, with the complete lack of music constantly emphasizing the gritty and tense atmosphere. The snowy plains of “Fargo” are replaced with the gritty desert landscapes of Texas, the inept criminals give space to cold-blooded professionals, the cops are worn out by age and always one step behind. In the end, it’s not important who dies and who lives, as the plot is just a way like another to underline the profound resignation of a tired sheriff who can’t understand the ages he lives in anymore. I don’t think there’s so much worthy philosophy behind it, but it’s still a perfectly packaged thriller with great cinematography and a notable cast, particularly Josh Brolin as the resourceful redneck and Javier Bardem as the henchman with the ugliest haircut ever.
Definitely one of the most intense non-horror films ever made, Javier Bardem is absolutely terrifying in this role and really adds to the suspense and intensity of the film. Joel and Ethan Coen really capture the essence of westerns in such a modern and refreshing way through the incredible writing and directing and the cinematography really just hammers this home. It’s genuinely amazing how such a bleak and depressing film still feels so suspenseful and in no way boring. Out of what I’ve seen from the Coens this is probably my favourite which is saying a lot. It would also be wrong not to mention Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones’ phenomenal performances and the last scene is absolutely perfect.
Der Film ist so ziemlich spannend und gut, aber ich versteh überhaupt nicht was das für eine ende ist...
This is some crazy shit! While the reto look and the cast are both quiet good, the plot is mediocre and at no time was I sucked into the story. Wouldn't watch it again.
Fun movie and great performances, but the story is a bit too simple for it to be a true classic in my taste. Doesn’t make it less enjoyable, though.
A movie without any music, I was surprised and i loved it, it helps the mood. The psychopath is one of the scariest bad guy i've ever seen. The first hour and a half was extremely oppressing. I loved it ! I found the last thirty minutes were not as good.
People hate the ending because it doesn't give the audience the big showdown they were expecting. Good guy vs bad guy. Marvel style. People hate subtext.
It's one of those endings that makes one of the top google suggestion be "ending explained".
Javier bardem....what a menacing performance
It's a rare thing when you manage to find a book adaptation actually worthy of the book.
The Coen brothers have turned Cormac McCarthy's modern classic into a cinematic masterpiece.
Everyone involved delivers their parts perfectly and the dialogue is spectacular.
I've read the book and watched the movie several times, still it is infinitely rewatchable and ages like fine wine.
One of the best movies to come out this century and in my opinion the Coen brothers finest hour.
I hadn't seen this since it was in cinemas, and found that it's even better than I'd remembered. It's a very unusually-paced film, with a lot of long silences, seemingly-innocuous conversations and dangling plot threads that don't ultimately lead anywhere. In many instances that could make for some infuriating viewing, but in the Coen brothers' hands it all somehow comes together into a master tapestry.
The word of the day is suspense, an emotion the brothers have excelled at in the past, and No Country is a glorious example of it at play. The film's three protagonists, retiring sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), stone-cold killer Chigurh (a terrifying, star-making turn for Javier Bardem) and land-living cowboy Moss (Josh Brolin), never actually meet face-to-face but the wake of ripples left in their dueling pursuits is enough to power several movies' worth of rich, intriguing material. Sweaty, intense action walks lockstep with outstanding characterization, top-notch dialog and a hearty dose of respect for the novel. Like many Coen classics, it gets better with each subsequent viewing.
One of my favorite movies. It’s an amazing crime thriller it has you on the edge of your seat the whole time. The acting is fantastic from the whole cast but most of all Javier Bardem as Aton Chigurh. It’s directed really good by the Coen brothers one of their if not the best Coen brothers movie. The writing is great and the cinematography is amazing some of the best. Overall it’s an amazing mind exploring crime thriller.
( 10 out of 10)
This movie won so many Oscars. I really don't understand why. Sure it is well filmed but it has no story whatsoever. It is boring and there is a police officer in the movie who just talks but does not add anything at all. Seriously, what did he have to do in the movie? The story is not sustainable for five cents, not much for action either. How can a role where the actor has ten lines of replicas and a face mint throughout the movie even become Oscar nominated?
Come on people - does everything need to be spoonfed to us? Not unlike the ending of the Sopranos, everyone is complaining about the ending of this movie. This film was not something that needed to be tied up like that because the battle between the characters was not the point. And like the ending of the Sopranos this ending fit the story.
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"Beer leads to more beer"
That one of my favorite quotes. This is one of the Coen's best. Anton Chigurh is truly one of the greatest villains ever. Just relentlessly evil and smart. Javier Bardem is fantastic. The story takes a lot of risks, especially at the end and they work. It has the witty dialogue that the Coen's are known for. It's beautifully shot, which is expected with Roger Deakins. Overall it is a masterpiece.
"You can't stop what's coming"
I feel like I need to watch this movie throughly because it's rated so high and I can't see why.
Firstly our killer Anton escapes his cuffs faster than a magician that needs a piss. He strangles an officer looking a like crazed rat with a lego man haircut. Then he kills another man with a cattle gun whilst being polite. So I guess this is our psycho?
A man called Llewelyn slowly follows a blood trail through a drug deal gone bad and finds some money. He goes back home to his wife who's character relies on asking question after question. Llewelyn sends his wife away and decides to go back to the dangerous scene because.. It's really a basic plot set up? He out runs a jeep until he escapes into a river where he out swims a dog and shoots it. I'm fine with that.
Anton is back. He's now in threaten mode. He's questioning questions... because that's a deep and psychological character trait for a slow walking, frozen faced, mumbling psycho cliché. There's a coin toss full of pretentious meaning for the sake of making Anton appear a complex. Feels more like for a Hollywood award. Anyway he kills two more. Still no police interested in this escaped psycho. Is this a glorified slasher movie?
Sheriff Ed appears. He's to old for this shit and appears a bit senile.
Anton brakes into Llewelyn's home with the cattle gun. It blows locks clean out. He traced Llewelyn because he went back to the drug deal scene (obviously killed people there too) and found Llewelyn's jeep and some personal items. He drinks some milk to leave behind a clue.
The Sheriff is not far behind because he was also at the drug scene and recognised Llwelyn's jeep. He gets to Llewyn's home and jokes they're after a man that drinks milk like they're clueless. How about start with the escaped psycho that has connections and killed an officer?
Llewelyn gets a motel room some miles away with free hbo and hides the money in the air conditioning system. The movie is pretty good so far apart from the philosophical terminator aka Anton.
Llewelyn, who doesn't know the money is bugged switches hotel rooms anyway, still has access to the money through the air vent system. Another lazy set up for a scene that leaves holes.
Anton traced the money pretty fast and walks around barefoot outside the motel room. Quirky. Anton enters Llewelyn's first rented room and kills three cartel members who are also after the money and have traced it. How did they get there? Didnt Llewyn notice as all he's doing is listening out?
Llewelyn escapes and you'd think he'd move to the other side of the country. Nope. He hitchhikes still not far enough away for the tracer to be ineffective. A new motel room. No hbo. By the time Llewelyn actually checks the money (why only now) and finds out he's bugged he hears someone outside the door? There is some good tension building. Obviously it's Anton who is a dab hand at using tracer by now. I think Anton killed the desk guy at the motel. Still non police or witnesses. The police have better things to do like question the point of it all.
A motel gun fight ends up in the streets. Nobody is around and nobody calls the police. Antons prefer stealth method during this tense shootout is to noisily walk slowly in the middle of the street. Guns are fired and Anton the escapologist dissappears.
Injured Llewelyn hides the money and gets into Mexico because he's drinking a beer and wearing coat whilst covered in blood. Brilliant disguise. Is that a typical Mexican?
Woody Harrelson's character Carson has previously been seen talking about how crazy Anton is. Because we never would have guessed. Here he's found Llewelyn in a Mexican hospital. How did that happen? Dont ask. The only questions must be from Anton asking questions about question. Carson takes a walk and happens to find the case of hidden money. Carson is psychic? Carson returns to his room and bumps into Anton. What timing. Anton attempts another illogical deep and meaningful Oscar nomination winning chat but is interrupted by the phone ringing. Anton shoots Carson in that cold way psychos in average movies do and answers the phone. Bye Carson. Thanks for being a part. Anton and llewelyn exchange threats on the phone. The movie is getting a little slow now with only half an hour left.... at some point Anton killed Carson's boss and got all deep again but I forget when....
Llewelyn goes to another motel room after being let back into the United States because he was in Vietnam. Great. Murcia! Proud. So why not just go get your wife now and vanish? Nah.
The Sheriff, obviously on his own because it's merely a simply drug cartel and mass murder case, finds a dead Llewelyn in his hotel room after the cartel sped away. Sheriff Ed is still wandering to himself what it's all about. That's what his character does rather then call the FBI.
Sheriff Ed goes back to the motel where Llewelyn was murdered. Why? He notices the lock has been air shot out. He's noticed this pattern. The only thing he has noticed. There is a coin on the floor. Sign of a coin toss whether Anton would shoot Ed? But Anton is in the room hiding. What timing Anton has. Ed goes away. He's had his pointless visit.
Time for Sheriff Ed's Oscar winning chat with a pal. It's no country for an old man y'know...
Anton finds Llewelyn's widow because he's keeping a promise to kill her. Just how deep is this Anton? She asks for mercy and the best Anton can offer is a coin toss. Because life is a coin toss.... We don't see if he kills her or not because that would be obvious filmmaking and we want it to be obviously unobvious. Just like the anti climax death of Llewelyn. Genius. Where's the award?
Anton is in a car accident that you easily anticipate. It's his very own coin toss. How clever. Genius. He has a bone sticking out his arm but refuses to stay for an ambulance. Does he even have to worry if an officer shows up? Nobody cares about mass murderers.
Sheriff Ed with some final coming of age dialogue and reflection . END
The movie had potential but Anton in particular was a stack clichés. Why did Anton want tge money anyway? The hell is he going to use it for? Maybe we'll see him gambling in a sequel screaming 'Vegas baby yeah' while killing someone with a chainsaw?
I can't recall any character development at all. The plot was a decent man hunt at times (I can excuse a few coincidences) but it was full of coincidences and the time line was a basic dot connec2ti on that wasn't even hidden. The dialogue was fine but pretentious with Antony and stagnant with the Sheriff. People lap this stuff up to feel smart about themselves and to feel like they've watched something special. Movie manipulation at its finest. Also the filmmakers show that if you use good actors and make a film look good enough and add pseudo intellectual dialogue, you can get away with it. This whole movie feels it's sole contrived purpose was to grab some awards and be credited as a smart movie. Pretty self indulgent film making. Job done I suppose. I don't even mind bad films if they know they're bad and entertain but when they pretend they're clever with cheap dialogue and then attract elitists.. annoying
Definitely one of the worst movies in my life.
Would have been a perfect movie if it wasn't for that ending. Really underwhelming...
Fast-paced all the time, the action works very well, without leaving you really calm. The characters are rounded, coherent and realistic, without heroes, and with terrible villains (I appreciate that there is no "deus-ex-machina" character, rare for this type of films). Also, the background of the sheriff's story gives more depth to the story, working as a thread that keeps it from being just a chase movie. The villain, again, brutal.
Sometimes I watch films one after another and I find them a little tasteless. Then I came across a film like “No country for old men” which gave me the feeling of having seen a good film. A film with certain scenes without (or almost without) dialogue which allows you to feel the atmosphere. I think at the beginning, with Moss in the desert or at the hotel with the briefcase. Chigurh on the road guided by the receiver. To this, the dialogues of Sheriff Bell immerse us in everyday life, when he asks his teammate to take a particular horse while explaining the reason, when he tells him a macabre story, or even, the dialogue between Bell and his secretary while giving him the month's checks.
A film which does not hesitate to take time to set the scene and yet lasts less than 2 hours. Besides that, some films are full of endless dialogue for a total duration of 2h30.
It's so strange that I watched this under 24 hours after I one-sitting (re)watched season 1 of 'Fargo' because I'd argue that's the most similar thing in existence to this film. Both so excellent.
Forgot how dead silent this movie is, and how brutal that makes the violence. Predator. Prey. Mammals. Money. Loss. Time. Loss of time.
To long, and boring, not worth 2hours
slow shit, but I'm still recommending it.
I need you to step outta car sir
yeah maybe everybody just dies in real life but that doesn't make a great movie damnit, 1.5 hours of brilliance followed by eh! fuck it.
I can't say I view this one positively. I clearly don't get it, which I'm fine with.
I'm all for films that don't play it so straight that it's predictable, but at the same time I'm rarely a fan of films that are so full of themselves to end in such a derisory way. Listen, that's probably harsh as it is still a good flick no doubt, but 'No Country for Old Men' is highly unsatisfactory and highly uninspiring for me.
I will say that I have no issues with the cast whatsoever, they are all fantastic. Javier Bardem is awesome, easily the star, and Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson are all top value. Kelly Macdonald and Garret Dillahunt are also involved, I like them too. Stephen Root, Mr. 'L for Love' himself, as well. Away from the onscreen bunch, the cinematography is superb.
It's the story. I didn't get what I wanted from it, at all. All the ingredients are there for a 10/10 film, that's the level I was expecting it to reach based on the opening half or so. The second half though... super disappointing! So many underwhelming choices. Such a waste of a strong cast... 'The Counselor'-esque. Bardem is also in that, sorry my dude!
The fact I'm still giving this what I consider to be a positive rating shows how much the conclusion frustrated me. This had top tier written all over it but it somehow messed it up as it went by... and I'm not usually one to dig out a film's ending.
In my defence, even some reviews (many, in fact) from people who love the film mention that the ending isn't perfect so I guess it just comes down to how the final moments sit with you. For me, evidently not good!
A movie to enjoy the ride that leads to nowhere.
Everything was going excellent and the... that ending. Javier Bardem did his best performance here, he is outstanding. But this movie has some unanswered questions and illogical situations that lowered the movie. And that inconclusive ending. So basically it is a movie to enjoy the ride because it leads to nowhere.
Great movie, great acting and directing, and extra points for cats and great monologues.
But wouldn't anyone in their right mind take the money out if its original case and put it in some different bag? I mean that's just common sense to me. Someone might be looking for a case just like this which had money in it.
Had he done that, he wouldn't have gotten tracked.
And we wouldn't have a movie I guess :laughing:
I think this movie is totally a Coen brothers movie includes different subjects and stories in it but like the others it makes the movie hard to follow. Also, its plot has a lot of fault and unnecessary details, on the other hand, it is a one of the best directed films i have ever seen also the message is in the end kinda unnecessary but i like it. To conclude,its quality depends on the audience.
10 - Totally Ninja!
This movie totally flew under the radar for me but damn is it good!
A wonderfully cinematic novel poorly adapted to the screen.
if the ending wasn't like that , the movie would receive from 100 % (Rotten tomatoes) , 9.8 ( imdb ) and 97 ( Metacritic ) , we wanted to watch fighting between Josh brolin and javier , why ?
Coan brother are great why they finished this great movie like awful movies and at the end why josh brolin wasn't killed cleary
After I watched this film I thought that the story wasn't anything bright, the characters were also a little bit underdeveloped, they could really have worked more on developing those characters.
Javier Bardem's performance however was brilliant, this was the best representation of what I would call a character that suffers from antisocial personality disorder.
Not only Javier Bardem was very good, but I really liked the actors they cast.
Also, I really enjoyed the cinematography and the sound.
Technically speaking, I believe the film did is job, but the story and the way they dealt with the characters did not please me at all .
Não achei este Filme tudo isso como falam, mas gostei demais da atuação do Javier Barden
starts good but ends poor
An exemplary cat-and-mouse given further weight by a poignant, ruminative confrontation between the virtuous traditions and values of the old and the hostile, inevitable force of change.
That coin toss scene. Remarkable.
Best movie with worst ending scene ever!
Coen's display confidence in crafting yet another masterpiece.
There's no doubt its a great film, but The endind was too strange. Or In don't get it.
Amazing acting (I love bot Bardem and Jones performances), an interesting story, beautiful directing, but that ending just doesn't make it for me...
top in 2007 i guess. the cat mouse game impress me.
2 words: Javier Bardem.
Brilliant!
It is a wonderful thing. In terms of script, directing, climate. Besieges and strongly committed.
I like how the villain is in no way compromised to envoke sympathy from the audience, nor is the plot all that concerned with whether the audience "gets it". It just plows along and you either jump aboard or are left behind. This is perhaps also its greatest dilemma.
The cinematography is very well done and acting by Brolin, Jones and Bardem is great. There is also no score whatsoever, which also adds to its gritty feel.
They might have gone a little too far trying to "explain" the movie title in the ending, but nonetheless, an entertaining movie.
7/10 +++ great acting and overal technique -"love or hate" style of story stelling.
No 'feel-good-movie'. The Style of the movie is good and the directors have a good way of storytelling, but i don't like the hard parts. And the weird ending is one thing, that makes the movie bader than it could have been.
6/10
@RealElmo: Ich persönlich finde das Ende furchtbar. Man hätte die Schrecklichkeit auch ohne dieses überzeichnete Ende darstellen können.
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This movie is underrated AF(on trakt.tv) even though it's one of the best movies of this Millennium with it's great acting, breathtaking story-line and the amazing directing.
10/10 in my opinion.