A few months ago, my sisters and I went to see a movie. We decided that we should see No Country For Old Men because it had gotten such awesome reviews. We had no idea what it was about. Had my sisters known, they would have refused. I probably still would have gone to see it.
This movie isn't like most movies. (Uh oh...sounds just as promising as "she has a good personality") It doesn't have much music, and it doesn't have much dialogue either. It starts out with Tommy Lee Jones talking about how he doesn't know how the older men who used to be sherriffs around where he lives would handle the kind of stuff that goes on these days. ("These days" being in 1980-something.)
The movie is basically about Llewelyn Moss, a man who finds about a billion dollars in a bag at the scene of a drug deal gone wrong, and takes off with it. Little does he know that the psychotic Anton Chigurh is following him, dead-set on getting the money. Not only does he want that money, he's going to kill Llewelyn no matter what, even if he gives Chigurh the money straight up.
Chigurh is what kept me watching. I wasn't terribly attached to Llewelyn, though I did want him to die because I liked his cute little wife, Carla Jean. But Chigurh is this psycopathic, horrible person. He barely seems like a person. He shows absolutely no emotion as he kills seven, eight, nine people onscreen. He needs a car, so he simply pulls someone over and kills him. He couldn't just take the car, he had to kill the guy. So goes the rest of the movie.
The acting in this movie, the filming, the lack of music, all these things made this movie chilling and extremely creepy. I liked the way a look from Chigurh could send shivers down my spine.
This movie's no feel-good family film, however. With ample blood and gore, and just enough plain suspense, this movie scared me a lot. But it is interesting and stuff.
I dunno, I've lost interest in this review....unlike the movie, which held my attention until the very unexpected rolling of the credits.
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