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No Country For Old Men [2008] | ![No Country For Old Men [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jqVo%2BHIHL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Root
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 117
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437942838
ASIN: B00147AJQ8
Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 2008
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 veteran who needs 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 veteran, 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
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 Very disappointing and really nasty film July 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this movie at the cinema and I couldn't wait for it to end. I thought it was very sickening and nasty and very boring in parts. I was just counting down the minutes to it ending - probably the worst film I have seen this year, along with Michael Clayton! I expected A LOT more!
 No Country for Film Buffs July 4, 2008
The first two-thirds of this film are a well-worked thriller on the theme of a Mexican drug deal gone wrong with the hero, a tough Nam veteran, having the chance to make off with two million dollars.
However, the plot falls apart in the last half hour and the audience has to watch various ageing American actors voicing folk philosophy. If you are going to watch this film, we would advise you to stop the DVD when the hero escapes to Mexico and simply write your own end to the film. So far, our favourite scenario is that the hero escapes with the money and his girl while the villain tracks down the Coen brothers and shoots them full of lead for wasting a potentially gripping film.
 Nice to see you, to see you nice.. July 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm going to make a confession.. I've never seen this film. Upon seeing the title it brought a tear to my eye and had a little kick at my heart strings as I imagined Bruce Forsyth being deported from a country for being too old. We love you Brucie.
A Modern Day Classic July 1, 2008
This is one film we seem to miss now on our tv screens, we get a lot of rubbish films, which more often than not are all the same. This one differentiates from the rest and truly is a must see.
Not much to shout about June 30, 2008
Starts with a lot of promise but fizzles out in the last half hour.
Lots of knowing looks and dramatic pauses don't really make up for a lack of an ending. Ambiguous endings I don't mind - but this just stops dead.
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