No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray] | ![No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5119Q9H4FhL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce, Josh Brolin, Barry Corbin, Beth Grant
Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  465 reviews
Sales Rank: 174
Format: Color, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 122
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: 75003
UPC: 786936750034
EAN: 0786936750034
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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Miramax No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray)
Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even West Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel byPulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond - right up to its heart-stopping final moment.
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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 vet who could use 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 vet, 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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 Better every time I watch it May 9, 2008
I first got into the Coen brothers when I watched Fargo. Fargo is still one of my all-time favorite movies, but No Country is up there now, too. I first saw No Country in the theater. I liked it, but didn't plan to buy it or watch it again for awhile. I don't know what happened, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to buy it when it came out on DVD. So I did. And every time I watch it it's just better and better.
While Fargo has a humorous side that keeps the edge off, No Country does not. It is dark, serious, and heavy. But it is so finely crafted, such a joy to behold, and so well-acted that it keeps you into it. I'll be honest, though - I've seen some other Coen brothers films like Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink and I personally don't think that they are masters of character development and drawing the audience into the story and into caring about the characters. There always seems to be some detachment. I think it is because of the artistic quality. Their movies, especially No Country, are so finely crafted from a technical and cinematography viewpoint that I think something of the human quality gets lost.
But, that's a minor point, and if you want that kind of movie, go see another director's work. No Country is amazing. It's well worth it.
 true to the book.. May 8, 2008
I loved Cormac McCarthy's book NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and thought the movie plays true to the book. It doesn't pull any punches, doesn't sell itself out or wind up in a Hollywood fantasy ending. It is stark, violent, desperate and a bit nostalgic. An old time county sheriff(Tommy Lee Jones, brilliant in a laconic way) yearns for the days when the bad guys could be contained and caught without alot of violence. He could always solve a case without every using a gun but these days there is no limit to the violence(embodied by Javier Bardem's brilliant portrayal). Josh Brolin's character is out hunting and comes across a drug deal gone bad with bodies littered across the stark desert. A lone man is alive and begs him for water but he doesn't have any and takes off after finding a bag of money. But his conscience tears at him and he does the unthinkable even though he knows it is a stupid thing to do. He goes back to the scene of the crime to bring water to the man who by now is dead and he is seen by the drug bosses and the chase begins. My wife never really liked the movie, too violent and too abrupt of an ending. But like I said having read the book I think the film is brilliant and the best adaption of a Cormac McCarthy book I've seen. Any adaption of a McCarthy novel is close to impossible but the Coen Brothers have done it!
Don't expect ribbons.. May 8, 2008
If you like plots tied up with bows...good guys always win, boy gets girl, justice prevails, etc...you won't like this one. If you can live with ambiguity, rhetorical questions, puzzles, enigmas, inanities, and the essential unfairness of life, then this is for you. Good script and good technique throughout. Another Coen brothers triumph...at least IMHO. Lesson to be learned: You do not have to do it, whatever it is!
minimal, even cinematography, three characters.......typical Coen Brothers flick May 7, 2008
I would have rated this 3 stars, as i feel there was excess hype about this film, I was a bit disappointed (no, i was not looking for a happy ending), but more how the story was a let down in the end and ended of on an annoyingly ambiguous and abrupt note, especially after such a perfect flow.
The three main characters, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones all play very intense roles and acting performances, whilst i feel Tommy Lee Jones' character was a bit stagnant, the other two were great, especially Anton Chigurh played by Javier Bardem, (i have not seen such a scary and evil character , since Jack Nicholson in the Shining)
The film is a trademark coen brothers' film, its a very well "made" film in terms of technical details and how a scene suddenly erupts in your face from dead calm and quietness, but the hype surrounding it and the oscar awards, well. umm based on the viewer's opinions it stands a bit divided and the jury is still out on this one.
Good film, i would recommend
 Well.... May 7, 2008
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The Coen brothers went out to the desert, stood over an empty film can, released their bowels, closed the can, slapped a "No Country for Old Men" sticker on it and then shipped it to Hollywood where it received an award.
It happened just like that!
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