Storyline
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.User Reviews
I don't remember being
so scared in a movie theater since "Don't Look Now" Here the Coen
Brothers take everything a step further with exhilarating ease. The
terror was genuine and not because we were rooting for Josh Brolin or
anybody in particular. The terror was personal, Joel and Ethan Coen made
that terror visceral and tangible. It has to do with our own
nightmares. Josh Brolin was a perfect piece of casting because in a way
he doesn't have many personal colors. He's one of the bunch, one of us
and we could put ourselves in his shoes. That is the art of film
narrative expressed in a way that we've never experienced before. I
heard people old enough to have seen Hitchcock's "Psycho" in the
theaters and what glued them to the screen was their own fear. Well,
that's what I've experienced here. Javier Bardem is superb, considering
that he's the reason for the fear. He carries a human/inhuman kind of
strength and we know he'll get us, sooner or later and if we consider
the ending of the film, he might still do. Worthy Oscar winners, all of
it and all of them.
