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The Coens also understand the stark immediacy of this tale, and they visualize it with brilliantly judged details.
Read the full reviewFeels positively Greek in its magnitude, a lament about fate, age, time and life.
Read the full reviewJoel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the year's very best.
Read the full reviewThe ultimate vision here is of a hard world in which civilization is the aberration, and the things we fear are always waiting for an excuse to make life normal again.
Read the full reviewNo Country for Old Men is purgatory for the squeamish and the easily spooked. For formalists -- those moviegoers sent into raptures by tight editing, nimble camera work and faultless sound design -- it?s pure heaven.
Read the full reviewA scorching blast of tense genre filmmaking shot through with rich veins of melancholy, down-home philosophy and dark, dark humor, No Country for Old Men reps a superior match of source material and filmmaking talent.
Read the full reviewIf watching movie violence is cathartic, then this film amounts to heavy therapy. It's much more than that, however. This is the best film the Coen brothers have done since their glory days of "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski," maybe the best they've done, period.
Read the full reviewMany of the scenes in No Country for Old Men are so flawlessly constructed that you want them to simply continue, and yet they create an emotional suction drawing you to the next scene. Another movie that made me feel that way was "Fargo." To make one such film is a miracle. Here is another.
Read the full reviewAn intense, nihilistic thriller as well as a model of implacable storytelling, this is a film you can't stop watching even though you very much wish you could. That's because No Country escorts you through a world so pitilessly bleak, "you put your soul at hazard," as one character says, to be part of it.
Read the full reviewThe breath of cinematic life, though, the sensibility, the energy, belong to Joel and Ethan Coen, and this is their stirring success.
Read the full reviewIt?s mostly an off-kilter road trip that accomplishes what the Coens do best - seamlessly merging drama, violence, and quirky humor into a whole.
Read the full reviewThe Coen brothers have fashioned a wry and riveting hybrid of a drama, Western, crime thriller and action film that is as powerful and thought-provoking as it is genre-bending.
Read the full reviewThe Coens' typically superior filmmaking sustains the electrifying mood for most of the picture, but they are undone by being too faithful to the source novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Read the full reviewMaybe part of the problem is that black comedy is a tough genre in which to create a masterpiece.
Read the full reviewI appreciate No Country for Old Men for the skill in the film craft. I understand No Country for Old Men for its penetrating disquisition on narrative conventions and its heroic will in subverting them. I admire No Country for Old Men for the way it tightens its grip as it progresses, taking us deeper and deeper into a hellish world. I just don't like it very much.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 91
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A Big Surprise
"The thing i loved most about this movie is its originality from every other film i have seen! People who say they "didn't like the film" didn't understand the point of the film and why moviegoers really enjoyed it. I WONT spoil anything here.....the story is NOT about Lewen Moss, he ISN'T the main character. the main storyline is centered arounded Sheriff Bell and the conflicts that occur which affect him at his day and age. The Ending may disappoint people who look for a "happy ending" or a "finished story" but thats not the intent of the Coen Bros. They were trying to reveal that violence at this point of the world has gone deep into chaos, too deep in fact that even if the law enforcement prevents one outbreak, another worse plague comes out! i liked the end because it does reveal why Bell wasn't fully commited to the law and how his childhood background affected his actions throughout the movie. There is a sense of unfullfillment in the film, but that's exactly the effect of the movie we are suppose to be left with. Everyone in life feels a sense of unfulfillment and that we are always in a journey to finish a lifelong task we know we can never accomplish"
The ending did not make much sense
"The movie was full of suspense and well violence. It had decent plots and Javier carried that special presence with him, everywhere he went you just knew something bad was going to happen. The ending was the thing that sent the whole movie crashing down. I was very disapointed, I thought that the ending would reach up and just dazzle me. Instead I ended up confused and well, dazzeled. But not in the way I wanted. I really hope they make a 2nd movie out of this and pick up exactly where they left off. And the ending please don't make it like "Vantage point". That you build up an amazing plot and then you send it crashing down with a cartoon ending."
Good, but ending:WTF
"This was a good movie Bardems is terrific, and Brolin and Jones are good as well. Pretty intersting up until the ending seriously what the hell was that. If someone understood that please tell me that made zero sense."
Video game crowd not happy....
"Sounds like most people are not happy because everything wasn't laid out so their small minds could understand it all. Well go back to your video games where everything is easy for you."
HOLLYWOOD ELITE AND MAJOR PAPERS NOT CREDIBLE
"I rarely watch movies, and this movie was just plain stupid.It had substance to be a good movie, but did a serious bellyflop at the end. Who the hell know's what happened. They should give you like five or ten endings and let you pick which one you want. At least that way, the end would be to your liking."
Didn't like it at all!
"Very slow movie, worst Tommy Lee Jones has been in, ending was even worse. I watched through to the end thinking it's going to get better but didn't."
Stupid
"the ending was terrible, how did this movie win any awards, did not understand how I sat through this whole movie, it was like it was not finished, wish someone could explain to me why it ended like it did, did Brolin die? Did I miss something?"
no country for old men
"hated this movie! The ending would have been so much better ifthe pycho murderer died in the car accident, just a moment oftime, having the quarter roll out on tails."
WHAT IS THE END
"GOOD MOVIE BUT BAD ENDING. NOT FOR GENERAL INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE."
Don't Get It
"Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. Total waste oftalent. Reminded me so much of "The Hitcher". Can't beleive I Iiked that movie better than this. I have tried to figure out what the point of this movie is. Entertainment, social metaphor, .....WHHAT???....Very violent and bloody. Didn't like the way so many innocent, decent people were killed by the assassain.I think it makes Texas and Mexicans look very bad also.Glad I only paid $5 for a DVD copy. Still feel like I was cheated.."
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