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U.S. 2007
Director: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Cast: Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Garret Dillahunt, Kelly Macdonald
Rating: R
Release Date: November 21st 2007
Running Time: 2 hours 2 minutes
The Movie Review
The bad and the worst
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There are movies that are so good that sometimes overlooked by most moviegoers, and then there are movies that are really good but general moviegoers deliberately chose not to see them. No Country for Old Men falls to the latter category.
This movie is so good that I think it was produced for movie critics only and to earn some prestigious awards only. I did feel satisfied after seeing this film, but not the kind of satisfaction that you get from seeing other entirely different movies. What I'm trying to say is that I felt satisfied because of the aesthetic quality of it.
NCFOM is almost devoid of any kind of music or any kind of ambient sounds. It gives us the feeling as if we are seeing them as exactly what would happen in the real world. Let's face it, for example if you see people on the street hitting each other, well, you won't be hearing any music on the background right? It only happens in the movies. But NCFOM has another distinctive quality. The leading actors barely have anything to say. It's like we stalk them from a safe place.
NCFOM is set in West Texas in 1980. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a lone wolf, a Vietnam War veteran who hunts animal and accidentally finds dead bodies scattered around on an empty desert presumably the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong. He doesn't find only the body but also a suitcase full of money. His greediness beats his commonsense and decides to take the money back to his house at the trailer park. Of course this money belongs to someone crooked and Llewelyn will be hunted immediately, and Llewelyn knows that, what Llewelyn doesn't know that the money is sought by a highly intelligent and emotionless psychopath Anton Cigurh (Javier Bardem) who is also a lone wolf with horrifyingly charming personality. Their cat and mouse game happens in the territory of an old Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a wise and kind sheriff beats only by his age.
Three different guys from three different backgrounds but share one thing...they are badasses with a very up-and-running brain...their cat and mouse is anything but funny. This is a film of real-world tension, an incident that really could happen and everything feels so real and close. As I stated above, devoid of any music eliminates the dramatic atmosphere but in heightens the feeling of tense, that too thanks to the cinematography and the solid performance of the actors. The audience will get to feel their heartbeat goes faster, in a sense that we could feel the tense of being chased or so to say hunted.
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No Country for Old Men has more Twists and Turns than any other movies released in 2007, and that is a great thing. Just be prepared for the ending that falls on the category of "Hate-it-or-love-it". Watching the ending, I didn't know whether to gape or cheer..both maybe!
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And since our website motto is From Moviegoers For Moviegoers, then I have to say it frankly that No Country for Old Men, again, doesn't give you the kind-of satisfaction you would get from other audience's-satisfaction-driven movies. Nevertheless the quality of NCFOM beats completely other general movies released this year and it's one of the best movies in year 2007.
No Country for Old Men...is No ordinary movie for ordinary Moviegoers.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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