Review of No Country for Old Men (2007) by Torion O — 19 Nov 2016

Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem's characters were the only ones that gave this movie the drive I wanted, and when Brolin's character died off-screen it was pretty anticlimactic, and very disappointing.

It jumps from various points of view, which adds to a sort of inconsistency prevalent throughout. Despite Javier Bardem's thrilling acting, it couldn't really take away the sense of not caring much for any of the characters, even himself.

This sense I describe can only be labelled as a Coen Brothers' specialty that I think is much more honed and better used in movies like Burn After Reading and Hail, Caesar!, but here it's not used in the same spunky way and instead makes for a slightly disappointing movie.