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No Country for Old Men

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No Country for Old Men (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 197 Fresh: 186  Rotten:11 Average Rating: 8.6/10
 
Consensus: It has the perfect mixture of suspense, humor, and compelling performances. Another triumph for the Coen Brothers, No Country has the perfect mixture of suspense, humor, and desperately compelling performances. The seemingly simple story hides a more complex narrative, and high tension is maintained throughout. more
 
Rated: R
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $74,223,625
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... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Drama, Drugs, Suspense, Thriller, Western, Murder, Serial Killers, Money

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald, Woody Harrelson

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenwriter: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Producer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
Composer: Carter Burwell

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 11, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurette - 1. WORKING WITH THE COENS: REFLECTIONS OF CAST & CREW 2. Diary Of A Country Sheriff
  • 3. Making Of

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Without overstating the case this could be Joel and Ethan Coen's finest work yet. A bruising, battering, almost religious experience.

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05/14/08 09:41 AM
Chris Laverty
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No Country for Old Men is the kind of film that will only cement the opinion you already have about its uniquely eccentric makers. Approach the ticket booth accordingly.

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05/01/08 04:23 PM
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC
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Retains the Coen brothers' trademark quirkiness, and it certainly goes all out. But it's also subtle in ways we haven't seen before.

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04/15/08 09:54 AM
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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The most fascinating element of the film is its formal linking of its multiple, no-nonsense protagonists. [Blu-Ray review]

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03/26/08 12:32 PM
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
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Thank goodness that experiment in appeasing the commercial suit types is over and the quirky brothers are back to form with No Country for Old Men, a dark and violent exploration of nature's hunt and the relevance of time.

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03/26/08 01:22 AM
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
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The problem comes when we realize it's a Tommy Lee Jones film and the title is more than just a random coincidence. It's a really good film that was almost great.

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03/04/08 09:22 AM
Jeff Bayer
Daily Herald (IL)
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...the Coens sabotage their wonderfully understated style in No Country with the trivial substance of their narrative.

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03/03/08 08:53 AM
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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Le film représente-t-il un sommet pour ces grands cinéastes? Je serais tenté de dire oui mais le temps seul le dira.

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02/29/08 07:58 AM
Nicolas Lacroix
EnPrimeur.ca
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02/22/08 03:15 AM
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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Un thriller de brillante ejecución cinematográfica, que muestra a los hermanos Coen en su mejor forma junto a un elenco excepcional. También una meditación sobre la violencia, desencantada y sombría.

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02/05/08 09:51 PM
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
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Embora os cineastas neguem ao espectador uma conclusão amarradinha e dramaticamente catártica, o fato é que esta é tematicamente perfeita e enriquece o filme ainda mais.

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01/31/08 10:10 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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Good fortune found is always promising before bad fortune comes looking for it.

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01/31/08 01:43 PM
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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I'm a big fan of the Coens. But, I've got to say, I'm not much appreciating this picture.

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01/30/08 02:29 PM
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card
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Sure to wow the critics, but no movie for the masses.

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01/18/08 09:57 AM
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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Virtuoso. A film of pin-sharp principles, cross-hair precision and suffocating tension, this Coens stunner hits like a cattle gun between the eyes.

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01/18/08 09:47 AM
Jamie Graham
Total Film
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Is it a masterpiece? Not even close.

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01/18/08 09:43 AM
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
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Watching this film has something of the elemental thrill of watching a cloud-shadow spread with miraculous speed over a vast, empty landscape: it has a chilly, portentous intuition of what America is.

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01/18/08 09:29 AM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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With its sly wit, dark intelligence and tense action sequences this film re-establishes the Coens as two of American cinema's most talented directors. It's also the best adaptation of McCarthy's work to date and an unmissable crime movie.

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01/18/08 08:55 AM
Jamie Russell
Channel 4 Film
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The Coen brothers have once again placed themselves at the very forefront of American cinema.

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01/18/08 08:40 AM
Paul Arendt
BBC
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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.

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01/18/08 08:04 AM
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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