No Country for Old Men (2007)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 232
Fresh: 219 | Rotten: 13
Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 50
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 5
Bolstered by powerful lead performances from Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men finds the Coen brothers spinning cinematic gold out of Cormac McCarthy's grim, darkly funny novel.
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When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just stumbled into the find of a lifetime. Upon discovering a bullet-strewn pickup truck surrounded by the corpses of dead bodyguards, Moss uncovers two million dollars in cash and a substantial load of
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Cast
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Javier Bardem
Anton Chigurh -
Josh Brolin
Llewelyn Moss -
Woody Harrelson
Carlson Wells -
Kelly Macdonald
Carla Jean Moss -
Garret Dillahunt
Wendell -
Tess Harper
Loretta Bell -
Barry Corbin
Ellis -
Stephen Root
Man Who Hires Wells -
Rodger Boyce
El Paso Sheriff -
Beth Grant
Carla Jean's Mother -
Ana Reeder
Poolside Woman -
Kit Gwin
Sheriff Bell's Secretar... -
Zach Hopkins
Strangled Deputy -
Chip Love
Man In Ford -
Eduardo Antonio Garcia
'Agua' Man -
Gene Jones
Gas Station Proprietor -
Myk Watford
'Managerial' Victims -
Boots Southerland
'Managerial' Victims -
Kathy Lamkin
Desert Aire Manager -
Johnnie Hector
Cabbie at Bus Station -
Margaret Bowman
Del Rio Motel Clerk -
Thomas Kopache
Boots Salesman -
Jason Douglas
Cabbie at Motel -
Doris Hargrave
Waitress -
Rutherford Cravens
Gun Store Clerk -
Matthew Posey
Sporting Goods Clerk -
George Adelo
Mexican In Bathtub -
Mathew Greer
Hitchhiking Driver -
Trent Moore
Nervous Accountant -
Marc Miles
Hotel Eagle Clerk -
Luce Rains
Pickup Driver -
Philip Bentham
Border Bridge Youth -
Eric Reeves
Border Bridge Youth -
Josh Meyer
Border Bridge Youth -
Chris Warner
Flatbed Driver -
Brandon Smith
INS Official -
H. Roland Uribe
Well Dressed Mexican -
Richard Jackson
Chicken Farmer -
Josh Blaylock
Boy On Bike -
Caleb Jones
Boy On Bike -
Dorsey Ray
Odessa Cabbie -
Angel H. Alvarado Jr.
Norteño Band, Norteño ... -
David A. Gomez
Norteño Band, Norteño ... -
Milton Hernandez
Norteño Band, Norteño ... -
John Mancha
Norteño Band, Norteño ...
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For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday.
McCarthy's ferocious tale gives the Coens room to unleash their cinematic gifts, but keeps them from wandering too far afield and losing themselves in the marshes of technical prowess or easy irony.
A masterly tale of the good, the deranged and the doomed that inflects the raw violence of the west with a wry acknowledgement of the demise of codes of honour, this is frighteningly intelligent and imaginative.
With its dizzying alternations of comedy and horror, the film is unmistakably a Coen brothers movie -- albeit a much better one than they've made in a while.
Joel and Ethan Coen have directed their best film since Fargo more than a decade ago.
What makes the movie a masterpiece, however, is not the Coens' supreme command of their craft in these scenes, but their willingness to embrace the resigned worldview of McCarthy's novel.
Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel was blessed with a usually impossible faithful adaption that translated the power of the words and weaved them into cinema.
Films this good come along once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
There's nothing extraordinary about No Country for Old Men -- except, of course, the spectacle of two great directors in total command of their craft.
A mostly absorbing tale of the hunter being subverted into the hunted, No Country For Old Men deserves to be lauded for its gripping, relentless thrills rather than its flawed denouement.
This film truly belongs to Javier Bardem.
No Country is a pitch-perfect thriller that delivers the pleasurable fear and suspense expected of the genre even as it sends its conventions to the shredder.
McCarthy's bloody and beautiful novel comes to life under the Coen's able touch.
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Once you open Pandora's Box, there's simply no stopping the beasts that pour out.
What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other.
No Country for Old Men is the brothers at their most polished, austere, and humorless.
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain.
When you see No Country for Old Men, leave your preconceptions at home. But bring your Alfred Hitchcock lenses. They're useful. No Country for Old Men is a dazzling time-bomb of a movie. It is an engrossing, brutal, nerve-wracking moral tale
You may scratch your head at the title, but when the credits roll, you'll know exactly what that means
Audience Reviews for No Country for Old Men
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- Carla Jean Moss: But for how long do we have to.
- Llewelyn Moss: Baby, at what point would you quit bothering to look for your two million dollars.
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- Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: A crime this big it's almost impossible to take it's measure.
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- Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Well, they'd torture em' first. I don't know why... maybe their television set was broke.
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- Wendell: Well, it's a mess... ain't it sherrif?
- Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.
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- Nervous Accountant: Are you going to shoot me?
- Anton Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me?
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- Llewelyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
- Carla Jean Moss: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
- Llewelyn Moss: Well, then I'll tell her myself.
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