Anton Cigurh is bizzare, lacks empathy for others, and has some (sick) intelligence. Rather a practical intelligence. He seems to defy the bullets and he walks calmly as if nothing can happen to him. He’s the God. He decides who lives or die. His “principles” are like the ten commandaments. In the end, he suffers an accident. That shows he can survive the predictable but still is under real God’s choice.

There is a lot of dark humor.” Sir, a bone sticks out of your arm. Let me sit for a minute.”
” Is Carson there?”“Not in the sense you mean”

Sorry, but the film was just awful. I expected a lot more. the plot is very underdeveloped, and i dont think there’s much ideological substance either. very disappointed.
the acting of the main characters is good indeed, thou, especially bardem.

Initial impressions on a movie I’ve wanted to see ever since I heard the first stirrings about it:

You don’t ever turn your back on someone wearing handcuffs.
You don’t go back to the scene of a heinous crime, even if you don’t have anything to do with the crime in the first place.

Not twenty minutes into No Country for Old Men and I feel my heart stirring. Ten some years ago in a random film class I was introduced to the Coen brothers’ style and vision via Blood Simple, and to this day this film still ranks as a strong favorite.

It must be powerful cinematography then, to evoke the same strong feeling in me and it’s only been a few minutes into No Country. The sweeping desert vista, the stark lonely beauty of wilderness punctuated by spots of brush and the odd tree here and there. The rush of (fear?) even before the first hinting of violence is shown. This is some great movie – and it hasn’t even been half an hour. I best get back to it now, I feel it’s only going to get better.

Spectacular. When I read the book I stated that it was my least favorite of Cormac McCarthy’s, but that it might make a great movie. The Coen brothers certainly make a great movie. I think it might be impossible to decide who is more responsible for how great a film this is, McCarthy for the source, or the Coen brothers for their handling of it. This is a rare case where I think the film makes it an even better story than the author did. The sheriff (detective stand-in) is even more helpless and ineffective in the movie than he was in the book. This is aided by the fact that the Coen brothers dispense of the puzzle of how the victims are being killed almost immediately, by showing us. So the detective isn’t really working on any real world mystery at all other than insurmountable question of evil. The evil and violence is so perfectly treated. The “bad guy” shows up on screen and without doing anything he fills you with true dull dread, and the knowing that he won’t go away. In the novel I got too caught up in Moss and his dilemma, and when he died midway I was left without a connection to the story. In the movie, however, I completely engaged with the Sheriff, and could see more of the indictment of Moss that is there in both versions.

No Country For Old Men finds the Coens back at their old stomping grounds. Sure, I like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou? just fine, but my favourite Coen brothers movies are their rougher, darker movies: Miller’s Crossing and Blood Simple. And No Country is definitely more along those lines than those of, say, Intolerable Cruelty. It’s slow, moody, and tense, and although the comedy is dialed down a bit, it’s still there, albeit very black. The story is simple and wears its genre influences with pride, which allows the Coens to play off the audience’s expectations, sometimes doing what you’d expect, sometimes not.

As well-shot and clever as the movie is, it wouldn’t work without the performances of its three lead actors. Josh Brolin creates an Everyman character you can get behind but with something dark hiding within him. Tommy Lee Jones plays the small-town sherrif who’s in over his head, but weary with experience and with a sense of worldiness that you wouldn’t expect. And Javier Bardem fills the entire screen with tension as one of the scariest killers I’ve ever seen. At times a crime movie, at others a western, with scenes of explosive but not exploitative violence, No Country For Old Men is easily the best movie I’ve seen all year. But it’s not easy.

Before this film, Fargo was my favorite Coen Brothers film. Now, it’s this film. It reminds me of Blood Simple but with more focus and maturity.
I also loved the theme that runs through the film, that people just don’t pay attention to things.

The Coen Brothers latest film, No Country for Old Men is a film that I’d been looking forward to for a while and I wasn’t disappointed. It did have a different tone than previous films by them, but in thinking about the film afterwards and remembering their other films, it took a while for the world of the films to click for me. Boldly constructed with a palpable tension during the entire film, it’s an examination of evil, greed and human nature that is a slightly different, but completely consistent with their other films.
With a creepily effective performance from Javier Bardem as well as excellent work by Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kelly MacDonald, it’s focused on the characters and the decisions that they make. Coen fans will see elements of most of their films along with some quirky and understated humour. It’s a film that is close to perfect with every shot and moment essential to the film and while there is some violence in the film, the Coens deal with violence in the most responsible way of any filmmakers today. It’s a great film and it’s wonderful to see them working at the peak of their powers again.