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No Country For Old Men fails to captivate



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Published Date:
19 March 2008
NO DOUBT there will be some film goers who will revel in this plotless violent
'thriller', but I for one, was less than impressed.
No Country For Old Men tells the story of Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who finds an abandoned truck surrounded by dead men with $2m drug money nearby.

When he steals the money he soon finds that he is being pursued by psychotic hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), in this Coen brothers thriller.

Llewelyn is prepared for carnage, and knows that when drug money goes missing, someone is going to be coming after it. So he leaves his wife Carla (Kelly Macdonald) and goes on the run.

Click here to view No Country For Old Men trailer.

Tommy Lee Jones stars as sheriff Ed Tom Bell - the honest policeman who narrates the film, but aside from that seems to have little purpose to the already weak plot.

This may well be the only review of No Country For Old Men where the reviewer isn't fawning over the Coen brothers 'masterpiece', but quite simply, I didn't like it and I think I just didn't 'get' it.

Bardem, sporting the world's worst haircut, portrays Chigurh in a frighteningly chilling way, and goes around shooting people with an air-gun for the majority of this gruesome, seemingly pointless film.

The film is so slow-paced I was aching for some sort of plot twist to entertain me, and the end - where Tommy Lee Jones' character says something which seems to bear no relevance to anything (again I'm not sure I understood this), was one of the most irritating endings to a film I have ever seen.

No Country For Old Men was probably one of the least satisfying films I have ever seen.

And took up two hours of my life I will never get back.

Click here for No Country For Old Men showtimes at Odeon Silverlink.



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