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| No Country For Old Men [2008] | ![No Country For Old Men [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jqVo%2BHIHL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (97 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 117 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437942838
ASIN: B00147AJQ8
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam veteran who needs a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife (Kelly Macdonald) he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On the way from El Paso to Mexico, he discovers he's being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh (an eerily calm Javier Bardem). Chigurh's weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way--or loses a coin toss (as far as he's concerned, bad luck is grounds for death). Just as Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a World War II veteran, is on Moss's trail, Chigurh's former colleague, Wells (Woody Harrelson), is on his. For most of the movie, Moss remains one step ahead of his nemesis. Both men are clever and resourceful--except Moss has a conscious, Chigurh does not (he is, as McCarthy puts it, "a prophet of destruction"). At times, the film plays like an old horror movie, with Chigurh as its lumbering Frankenstein monster. Like the taciturn terminator, No Country for Old Men doesn't move quickly, but the tension never dissipates. This minimalist masterwork represents Joel and Ethan Coen and their entire cast, particularly Brolin and Jones, at the peak of their powers. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Amazon.co.uk
No Country for Old Men is Joel and Ethan Coen?s most gripping and accomplished film to date. DVD special features include a look at the Coen Brothers? film-making process, showing how they assembled and shot one of the most compelling thrillers of the year, as well as shedding new light on the complex characters and celebrated creators of the film. Bonus features on this disc: - The Making of No Country for Old Men - Working with the Coens - Diary of a Country Sheriff
Synopsis
With NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the Coen Brothers have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. Their adaptation of McCarthy's praised novel is a staggering masterpiece. In this almost impossibly faithful adaptation, the film takes place in a small Texas border town in 1980. Sheriff Bell (a never-been-better Tommy Lee Jones) has ruled the land for years without the use of a gun, but a new brand of reckless lawlessness has taken over his town. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is an innocent Everyman with a devoted wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), but when he stumbles across a drug deal gone deadly and finds two million dollars, he's determined to keep it for himself. There's only one problem. He's being pursued by one of the most amoral, evil psychopaths that the big screen has ever seen. Wearing an absurd haircut and brandishing a pressurized weapon that's used to murder cattle, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) creeps forward on his mission to track Moss down and return the money to its rightful owners to save his own skin. As the tension mounts, the body count begins to rise, confirming Sheriff Bell's inability to battle this new wave of modern brutality.
The most striking thing about the Coen Brothers' thriller is their masterly use of silence to create an almost unbearable level of tension. Cinematographer Roger Deakins is once again at the top of his game, beautifully capturing this stark and lonely world. The well-rounded cast is clearly excited to be a part of such a stellar production--particularly Bardem, whose Chigurh is a freakishly mysterious monster, and is certain to haunt viewers long after the final credit has rolled. In a career filled with striking achievements, this might very well be the Coen Brothers' finest. It is filmmaking at its best.
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 Great film, which many people seem to hate September 3, 2008
This is the Coen Brothers back to their best, after a mis-step with Intolerable Cruelty and, frankly, an awful remake of The Ladykillers.
The pacing, script, acting, direction are all first class.
Many people seem to have awarded this just 1 star. That is a disgrace.
If you liked Three Burials, Michael Clatyon and In The Vally of Elah, this will be your type of film.
If not, watch The Jeremy Kyle Show in your underwear and have a pot-noodle.
That may be more your cup of tea.
 Guess I'm just too unsophisticated August 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After a great start, this film in the middle morphs into a typical Coen Brothers film (ie. lots of half-watchable, highly stylised scenes which involve people talking to the audience and not each other), and then morphs into just boring drivel. Making me not care about the kelly macdonald character (who was actually very real) in the waffly and totally unconvincing final scene with the hair-do was quite a feat. And I couldn't for the life of me listen to whatever Tommy Lee Jones was rambling about at the end - the recounted dream of a character who'd barely been in the movie, and even when he was who had nothing to do except ramble (to the audience, not to the other characters).
Then again, I'm probably one of those blockbuster loving morons referenced so often in the other reviews. Funny though - the likers of this film almost all praise the acting and the cinematography and the production design and the direction and the writing and all the other technical stuff. Anyone ever hear anyone say all that about Goodfellas? Why bother - great films make you forget they're films and you talk about the characters, no all that technical nonsense.
The Coens are WAY overrated. They can do melodrama - but drama.....
 crap ending August 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good movie, beautifully shot, excellent acting, cinematography, locations, villain etc let down by a rubbish ending.
 Poor Film - No Imagination August 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was NOT a faithful adaptation of Mcarthy's book and did it no justice. Why? because the Coen brothers present you with the beginning and middle of McCarthy's book, but not the endings. There are far too many loose ends in the film which McCarthy had the imagination and the integrity to clear up - in the book, but which the 'artistic' Coens could not manage. Did they run out of time? Money? Imagination more likely. The actors performed well but there was so much wasted potential here. A really good story that the Coen's could not tell adequately. The Coen's have been over-rated for too long and Hollywood was suckered into awarding this 'unfinished' project the Oscar for best picture. I felt cheated by the Coens, and it's the last time that will happen.
 Oscar worthy August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every now and then, you watch a film, you dislike it but you respect it because you know that it's good. Which doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and it doesn't but that's the feeling I felt when I watched No country for old men. It's made by the Coen brothers, so quite obviously you know it's going to be well directed, and well written. As well as that, you know it includes Tommy Lee Jones so it's going to be well acted. But something I didn't expect when I watched this was that Javier Bardem was in fact the big star in this. He's haunting as a psychopathic killer who's after a LOT of money who a hunter has stumbled across in the middle of a desert. Unknown to this hunter, Javier Bardem's character has placed a tracking system on the money so it's basically a game of cat and mouse throughout the whole movie. Which is fine. But for some reason, despite all it's positives, this film never appealed to me when I watched it. Maybe it's the style of the film, the fact that it seems to be making too much effort to making critics like it rather than hooking the normal audience into it. Some people will feel bored while watching this, because in all respects it is very slow, which is meant to make the film seem more thrilling. And for some it might work, but for people who are used to films with guns blazing all over the place, this isn't really recommended. It deserves the oscars it's had, a lot of effort has been put into it, but the effort will only attract a certain audience. Not a film I personally liked then, but I respect it, and if you think your interested in watching a critically acclaimed modern western watch it, but if you think it won't appeal to you, it won't.
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