No Country For Old Men

Manu: Q
Manu P/N: Q-2763
Disc Marking: D-9A / D-9B, plus some chinese characters
DVD Copy? Yes
Audio: W/ English 5.1 channel audio
Screen Aspect: Anamorphic Widescreen (AWS)
Comments:
- Another outstanding technical copy
- I had a lot of expectation before watching this film, but came away a little bit unimpressed. Anyway, the good news first: Some incredibly gorgeous shots of the desert plains of Texas, truly wonderful eye-candy. Superb acting by all of the Actors, but definitely the movie belonged to Javier Bardem as “Anton Chiburgh”, a psychotic killer. A break out film for him, his intelligence & cold bloodedness makes him the type of person you would regret meeting & talking to, because it’ll probably be the last thing you’ll ever do. Sort of like a “Hannibal Lecter w/ guns”.
- The movie is basically about a Texan hunter (Brolin) who was able to recover money from a botched drug transaction in the desert. A psychopatic assassin (Bardem) was sent to track him down & recover the money. Lots of great action & suspense, definitely the movie’s strongest points.
- But just somehow didn’t work for me. Maybe it was the lack of musical score all throughout the film, or perhaps the way they made Bardem look like some sort of a super-villain who can kill anybody all by his lonesome & keep getting away w/ it easily. Or maybe it was because the bad guy won, or even because of the fact that Tommy Lee Jones didn’t seem to do much in the movie except being a Narrator. It’s a “good enough” movie, but not necessarily something worth an Oscar Best Picture award.
- Still, it has enough merit to be rated as, “Recommended”.