I don't know what to make of this movie. It's pretty, though. The story is a thilling chase, but it doesn't get resolved in a satisfying way. Our hero dies and the villain walks away. On top of that there's a police officer who doesn't accomplish anything. He just laments the violence. His commentary is supposed to root the events to something deeper, I guess, but the story isn't really that deep. It's basically about a quirky, random serial killer we don't get to know anything about. I guess the book is better.

A gritty and grim movie about bad stuff happening to relatively ok people.. Javier Bardem plays a villain with the stupidest haircut ever, I guess that's the downside of being as menacing as he is, nobody dares to tell you... features a coin flip more dramatic than many "thrillers" and "dramas" put together!

I have seen this film five times now. Watching it for the fifth time has revealed how strong its more thrilling elements are in addition to reinforcing the clean-cut precision of the Coen brothers' filmmaking. The story is very bare-bones but also incredibly complex; many essential plot components will likely go over the audience's head the first time around.The idea at this film's center is that of a modern Western, one which turns the genre's many conventions straight onto their heads. It is never uplifting. Its ending is a denouement rather than a climactic shootout and though there is plenty of violence in the film, it often isn't shown in the way you would expect. There isn't even a clear hero, and the character who is closest to being the film's moral center is, it is discovered, himself a little naive. Even with my having seen it so many times and done my fair share of research, I must concede that the ending is still little more than a cinematic head-scratcher, as they say. That and one or two of the other more subversive story elements trip up the narrative somewhat. They seem to exist a little more for the director's benefit rather than the audience's. I only wish that the message were a little more clear.That said, "No Country for Old Men" is a marvel of a film. The performances are heroic, most notably Javier Bardem's truly intimidating portrayal of Anton Chigurh, the calm, ghostly assassin who silently stalks his prey and plays by his own demented rulebook. Roger Deakins' being behind the camera ensures absolute perfection in the cinematography department. The picture also has a quiet atmosphere to it; the sun shines over the dead Texas dunes as the wind drifts smoothly by, suggesting an impermanence to the world in which these horrible events take place. It's a near-perfect movie and one that I'd highly recommend to anybody with a taste for thrillers that have real staying power.

MASTERPIECE ! If you have yet to see this film then do so right now ! I won't even begin to give another long winded breakdown of the movie just see it and then watch it again about a year later.Then continue to do this until you die. Joy. Perfect. Masterpiece. I heard that GOD loves this film too and it runs forever in the cinema in the sky !