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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936746754
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 37
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife (Kelly Macdonald) he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On the way from El Paso to Mexico, he discovers he's being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh (an eerily calm Javier Bardem). Chigurh's weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way--or loses a coin toss (as far as he's concerned, bad luck is grounds for death). Just as Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a World War II vet, is on Moss's trail, Chigurh's former colleague, Wells (Woody Harrelson), is on his. For most of the movie, Moss remains one step ahead of his nemesis. Both men are clever and resourceful--except Moss has a conscious, Chigurh does not (he is, as McCarthy puts it, 'a prophet of destruction'). At times, the film plays like an old horror movie, with Chigurh as its lumbering Frankenstein monster. Like the taciturn terminator, No Country for Old Men doesn't move quickly, but the tension never dissipates. This minimalist masterwork represents Joel and Ethan Coen and their entire cast, particularly Brolin and Jones, at the peak of their powers. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Movie
This was received in a timely manner and in good condition
I did not like this movie....To much killing.I would not recommend this, but this is my opinion.
Also the actors names were under the wrong pictures.
Rating:  - Lean, mean adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel
BEWARE SPOILERS (and tedious plot discussions)
The way the last quarter of so of this movie was cut makes me wonder, who did the cutting and what was the rush? We see Llewelyn dead but we don't see him die. We can presume the money went to Mexican drug dealers but we don't see that happen. Or--because Chigurh gives the kid a hundred dollar bill for his shirt--maybe HE got the money. Whether Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) is still alive as Chigurh walks out the door is unclear--intentionally unclear since the psychopathic fatalist gave her a coin flip. However she wouldn't let Chigurh avoid responsibility for her death by calling the coin flip. What's a madman to do? We never find out. Or--since we see Chigurh checking the bottoms of his boots for something (blood?) as he leaves her place--maybe he did kill her.
I also wonder about keeping such a sickie alive as the closing credits run. I wasn't keeping count but Chigurh wantonly killed somewhere around a dozen people, mostly just because he could. I think this kind of character--a psychopath with a code (you harm, insult or even inconvenience me and you die)--plays well in this age of violence in which we live. He is something like shock and awe made flesh.
Don't misunderstand me. This is a riveting flick, as one would expect from Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The acting, especially by Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin is superlative. Bardem, with the thick pageboy hairdo and the big malevolent eyes and ... Read More
Rating:  - No Country For Old Men
Excellent movie showing the saga of retrieving contraband. Quite realistic in showing the evils and determinations in the drug world.
Rating: - Soggy piece of suckwipe
The Coen Brothers have completely lost site of excellent filmmaking in this horrible piece of obvious meta-fiction that depicts a few days in the lives of a group of forgettable characters who are implicated in a drug deal gone bad. The movie is completely dismissive of a group of characters who figure largely in the movie--the Mexicans--and comes across as an amateur film student work that requires a longwinded explication of its motives and subtexts. Yawn....If we want to get meta-fictional, let's examine how the film depicts the Coen brothers' getting too tired to film anything interesting.
Rating: - Pointless
Half the characters didn't even have a reason for being in the movie, and the other half died from a bolt gun. I can't imagine why they thought to make this movie.
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