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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 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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about 2 months ago
One of my top ten films of all-time. Some say it’s too soon for a film this new to take a place like that, but this is the Coens masterpiece.
about 2 months ago
Fitz – It’s a damn great one, that’s for sure. IF I were to compile a top ten of the decade, there is a good chance it’d sneak in there… but, alas, I cannot wrap my head around only the top 10 best of such a huge pool of great films.
about 1 month ago
Bold statement by Fitz. Great film, but I didn’t think it deserved the Best Picture Oscar. Bardem creates one of the greatest screen villains, that’s for sure. Another triumph for the Coens! Great job at adapting the novel too, which I’m sure was a difficult and challenging feat.