Genre: Western/Thriller
Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Barden, Josh Brolin
This film is based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. While
hunting, Llewelyn Moss comes across the remnants of a drug deal gone bad. Among
the corpses and vehicles, he finds a briefcase of money and leaves with it,
which now brings psychopathic hitman Anton Chirgurh on his trail, armed with a
captive bolt pistol and a coin.
I saw this film when it came out and I was not in the right mood for it, I think. Watching it again now, I was better able to appreciate its artistic merit. The Coen brothers did a great job setting a tone of isolation and inevitable fate. The three main actors all did a superb job with their respective roles. Barden was particularly creepy as the hitman, weird hairdo and all. The non-ending still bothered me a bit, but this film is truly a solid work of art.
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