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UPC:786936746754 DESCRIPTION: Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond right up to its heart-stopping final act.
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 conscience, 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
