Admittedly, it’s hard to offer up a review of No Country for Old Men without dishing out spoilers, but here goes…
One of things I hate about seing movies that are ripe with so much fanfare is that I tend to go into the theater with such elevated expectations, and typically they never live up to the hype (read: Little Miss Sunshine).
Couple that with the fact that for Best Picture this movie is currently the leader in the clubhouse, and thus you can imagine my apprehension about getting too excited to see it.
I’ll say this: This is a good movie. Is it great? Gosh, I don’t know. The acting is solid (as evidenced by all the Academy Awards nominations). And the storyline is, well, okay I guess. If I had to encapsulate it in a sentence, it would be along the lines of “Man stumbles upon a briefcase with a lot of money, only to have a psychotic bounty hunter chase him, while the local sheriff gets philosophical about life” or something like that.
If anything, I think Josh Brolin’s performance has gone somewhat unnoticed, and Kelly McDonald somehow skillfully shed her heavy Irish accent to play a housewife from Texas.
If this movie wins Best Picture, definitely no complaints from me. The Coen Brothers have certainly earned it with this one. But… if there’s an upset and this movie doesn’t win, then no harm no foul.
Make sense?
just watched no country for old men, it’s unassumingly unconventional yet (thankfully) never over-the-top. the Coen bros. deserve their Oscars; well done indeed.