With this intense, nihilistic thriller, the Coen brothers drop the mask. They've put violence on screen before, lots of it, but not like this..."No Country For Old Men" doesn't celebrate or smile at violence, it despairs of it, despairs of its randomness, pervasiveness and inescapability, of the way it eats at the soul of society and the individuals in it.Capsule review of "No Country for Old Men" by Kenneth Turan
Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law--namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell--can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives, as the crime drama broadens.
Opened November 2007
2 hr. 2 min.
R - strong graphic violence and some language
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Joel Coen
Genre: Crime Thriller, Thriller
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