No Country For Old Men (2007)

Starring: Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: The Coen Brothers
Country: USA
Genre: Thriller

There are few performances in this decade that made me feel as uncomfortable and dreadful as Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. By the end of the film, I felt like I had been doing stomach crunches for two hours. The Coens have sculpted their masterpiece with this film, deviating from their tongue-in-cheek humor and creating a balls-to-the-wall suspense thriller. The majority of the film is just one giant and well developed chase scene that even Hitchcock would gush over. Brolin’s performance as a Texan who stumbles upon a satchel of money after a drug deal gone wrong is understated and spot on. Tommy Lee Jones’s detective provides the glue to the film, cementing brick by suspenseful brick with his quiet denouncements of the current world in which we live in.

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