Movie Review: No Country For Old Men

Posted by Regnard Raquedan | 6:45 PM | , , | 4 comments »

I finally was able to catch the most recent Oscar winner for Best Picture: No Country For Old Men. I've been quite busy lately and this movie was the perfect "reward" for the stuff I've been doing.

Now on to the film: The movie won an Oscar deservingly-- The Coen Brothers were able to translate Pulitzer-winning author Cormac McCarthy's work into a tension-filled film. Although set in a rural Texas town near the U.S.-Mexico border in 1980, it's not your typical Western shoot-em-up. On the contrary, the movie lays down themes like chance, justice and fate. I find it the thinking man's action movie, if you know what I mean.

Rather than relying on big bangs and grand gun fights, the movie uses silence and makes the viewer imagine the action since a great deal of the movie shows what happened after the action. The pacing of the movie is almost perfect-- I personally didn't like the anti-climactic epilogue. The movie also has a very memorable baddie played by Javier Bardem. He's probably the villain with the worst looking set of weapons.

Over-all, the movie for me is near perfect: a gripping movie with great cast acting and memorable characters. Really a great movie to cap my week.


Rating: 4.5/5


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4 comments

  1. lateralus // 4:21 PM  

    This is a very unpopular opinion I hold, but I think "No Country For Old Men" is one of the most overrated movies of this decade. The plot was so trivial! Ok, so it's a creepy guy tracks down some random dude. That's hardly what a classic is made of.

    I personally liked "There Will Be Blood", "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", "Kite Runner" and heck, even "American Gangster" than this film.

    :p

  2. Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan // 4:25 PM  

    @ lateralus,

    I think it has more to do with the craftsmanship of the film that makes this movie a good view.

    Story-wise, it is up there, but not THE best ever. But you really have to give the Coen Bros. their due. :P

  3. the donG // 7:16 PM  

    wow! giving a near perfect rating to this movie tells me to watch it asap.

    thanks for the review.

  4. Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan // 9:29 PM  

    @ dong:

    Yeah, do check it out. It's nice piece of work.

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