No Country For Old Men

(2007)

*****

Wow.  This movie really surprised me.  I got to admit, before pushing play on this blu-ray, I didn’t even know what this movie was about, and I’m glad I didn’t!  Not knowing what it was about made it Oh so much better!  I was expecting to see two old men sitting on a porch with a shotgun telling kids to get off their lawn, not at all!  This was an amazing original crime thriller.  In the beginning it was a confusing story, what’s going on, but quickly I got into it, and before I knew it, it was one of my favorite movies of 2007!

So you got your main characters, a cowboy who just found 2 million dollars, and is running from a homicidal maniac.  A homicidal maniac that has probably the best weapon ever used in the history of motion-pictures, which was some kind of air-pressure gun, amazing.  And the sheriff of the town, Tommy Lee Jones.  Now, what I found interesting was the sheriff lives in a nice quiet town in the middle of absolutely nowhere.  Then this massive shootout of Mexicans happens, when a drug deal goes bad.  The sheriff finds this homicide spot, like CSI gone wild, and how does he act? He acts like this is something he sees every day, yup, that’s a lot of dead bodies, let’s move on….  I would be like HOLY CRAP! DEAD BODIES, but hey, its Tommy Lee Jones, awesome guy.

The story itself is a cat and mouse game of trying to get the cowboy, who has the 2 million in a small suitcase.  I got into it, and was waiting for the huge climax, the part where the best shootout of American filmmaking was about to happen.  They completely didn’t show it happen.  It skipped it, just showed Tommy Lee Jones’s crinkled forehead.  How exciting…

Then there was the fact that it had no ending at all.  I was watching it, and even though it was like two hours in or so, I thought there was going to be another hour, one thing I know the sheriffs’ talking, next thing I know the credits are rolling.  I looked up and was like, wait, did I miss something? Surely I did? No, no I didn’t, and either did you, its just how it ended.  Or didn’t end, however you look at it.

Anyways, this truley was one of the best movies of 2007, watch it if you haven’t seen it.  I recommend this to anyone, and I don’t care that its rated “R,” watch it anyways, its life altering.  Peace Out.