No Country for Old Men

Rating: 75%
Okay so finally I am reviewing the last best picture form the 2000s to date. So without much more to be said, here's my review for No Country for Old Men.

Plot: The film starts with Llewelyn Moss hunting Pronghorn but while doing so, eventually comes across the aftermath of a drug deal that went bad and finds two million dollars in a satchel that he takes home. Eventually people find out about it and so a hitman named Anton Chigurh is hired to recover the money from Moss. But this also leads Sheriff Bell to investigate about this and try to find and protect Moss from getting killed.

In my opinion, this is a sort of film that you have to watch twice just to make sure you understand everything. I mean it may have been years when I saw it the first time and I had just saw it a second time, but it's a very slow paced film that you might not completely understand. But even if you get it all from the first or second time, fact is fact; it's a nice film at the least. They story is slow but simple, it had good cinematography and the characters were well acted. But I think what really stands out in this film is Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. Chigurh was a really fascinating character - you could say that he's the prologue before Heath Ledger's Joker. Because The Dark Knight came after this film and both of them won best supporting actor for playing a psychotic character who has little to no past, as a certain style for killing people, is smarter then the good give them credit for, and both actors did brilliant jobs portraying them. But while Ledger's character was more energetic and mysterious as The Joker in himself is suppose to be, Bardem portrayed Chirgurh to be much more silent and at least having one little itty bitty connection to what he's done before the events of the film. The result was that it was no surprise that he won best supporting actor. Tommy Lee Jones also gave a good performance as Sheriff Bell and with displaying the meaning of the title of the film with what was happening to his character.

And that's my review for No Country for Old Men. It's doesn't blow me away personally, but I'll admit that it is a well done film and that it's Javier Bardem as Chigurh that specifically stands out in this film.