No Country for Old Men
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$1,226,333 (USA) (11 November 2007) (28 Screens)
Gross:
$74,273,505 (USA) (6 April 2008)
My Thoughts
Great movie! When you have this many talented actors together you normally get one hell of a show. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson and the list goes on.. The Coen Brothers are a little mysterious. They can make all sorts of films including: No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Fargo (1996) and The Big Lebowski (1998). Their films for the most part take real life situations and they each deliver a layered and meaningful film. No Country for Old Men is no exception.
I give No Country for Old Men a 4/5
