No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]
by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

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Actor: Barry Corbin, Beth Grant, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Rodger Boyce
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Brand: Miramax
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Composer: Carter Burwell
Editor: Roderick Jaynes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO

DVD Reviews of No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: As Simple as a Greek Tragedy
Summary: 5 Stars

We occasionally have the feeling that a Coen brothers film is an elaborate in-joke that they are playing on everyone else but each other - not so with this spare, grim and visually dazzling story. Let me say also that I do not know the book it was based on, and am not particularly a fan of thrillers or choreographed movie violence, but "No Country for Old Men" drew me in from the start. The plot is as simple one of those ancient Greek dramas, of hubris and judgment, of human archetypes, of evil, honor and redemption, and black dark humor.

Out hunting in the west Texas desert, one blistering hot day in 1980, good ol' boy Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) comes across the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone horribly wrong; dead bodies of men and dogs, abandoned cars and guns... and 2 million dollars. Llewellyn, a partly-employed welder and Vietnam veteran, lives in a trailer park with his young wife. Why not take the money? Who would ever know? But it soon appears that someone does know that he has a case full of cash, - and he wants it back and Llewellyn Moss dead. That would be Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem); a sociopath with a faultlessly polite manner, right up until the time he casually executes his victims with a air-driven cattle-killing bolt gun. Following Chigurh is the wry and weary Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) and for the rest of the movie, the three of them pursue each other, back and across the border, circling tighter and tighter around each other and the satchel full of money - but almost never appearing in the same frame.

Practically nothing that happens in this movie is telegraphed beforehand; there are not even any musical cues. In fact there is hardly any music at all. The violence is curiously understated; sometimes it happens off screen, or is only implied. Mostly we are faced with the aftermath; one of the most unsettling sequences is of Chigurh performing rough surgery upon himself in a cheap hotel room. The sense of place is unerring; yes, this is what west Texas looks like; the desert and the rivers, the little stores next to the gas pumps along the highway, the caf? and the small-town business block. In fact, they are so little changed that my daughter and I did not realize that the story was set in 1980 until quite a good ways into the movie. Aside from no one using a cell phone, and driving junky old cars, we would never have guessed at all that it was not a contemporary setting.

There are only three bonus features: a collection of interviews with the actors and technicians about working with the Coen brothers, a "Making of " feature and a close-up called "Diary of a Country Sheriff" - all of which run together indistinguishably, but still offer some interesting background to the main feature.

DVD Review: great gift for your husband/boyfriend
Summary: 5 Stars

i bought this as a gift for my husband.
he would constantly watch this on cable and wanted his own copy.

DVD Review: Riveting Movie.
Summary: 4 Stars

This is an intense movie about a killer on the rampage who can't be caught with an abrupt ending that doesn't make sense. The Academy Award for the best picture of the year was awarded to this suspenseful movie. If you want to get your heart pumping then see this movie.

DVD Review: Disk made in Mexico?
Summary: 3 Stars

On the outside of the DVD package, the Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones' names where in the wrong place. The DVD, "No country for Old men," came in what I consder flimsy packaging. The DVD came in good condition. And it came relativley quick.

DVD Review: unjustified high praise
Summary: 3 Stars

I was totally confused by this film. I must be missing something because I don't understand what the fuss is all about. I'm not even sure that I find Javier Bardem's performance that compelling either - the character is interesting but Bardem's execution? I'm not sure how much it adds to the character.

Description of No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

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DESCRIPTION: Violence and mayhem erupt after a man stumbles upon a bloody crime scene, a stash of heroine and $2 million in cash in Miramax Films No Country For Old Men. Acclaimed filmmakers The Coen Brothers deliver their most viscerally compelling and ambitious film yet in this gripping crime saga in which money is as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable, and where every decision has potentially catastrophic consequences. Adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Cormac McCarthy and starring an acclaimed cast led by Academy Award? winner Tommy Lee Jones, this mesmerizing game of cat and mouse will have you on the edge of your seat until the nail biting end.

The Coen brothers make their finest thriller since Fargo with a restrained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Not that there aren't moments of intense violence, but No Country for Old Men is their quietest, most existential film yet. In this modern-day Western, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies (both human and canine). In examining the site, he finds a case filled with $2 million. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife (Kelly Macdonald) he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On the way from El Paso to Mexico, he discovers he's being followed by ex-special ops agent Chigurh (an eerily calm Javier Bardem). Chigurh's weapon of choice is a cattle gun, and he uses it on everyone who gets in his way--or loses a coin toss (as far as he's concerned, bad luck is grounds for death). Just as Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a World War II vet, is on Moss's trail, Chigurh's former colleague, Wells (Woody Harrelson), is on his. For most of the movie, Moss remains one step ahead of his nemesis. Both men are clever and resourceful--except Moss has a conscience, Chigurh does not (he is, as McCarthy puts it, "a prophet of destruction"). At times, the film plays like an old horror movie, with Chigurh as its lumbering Frankenstein monster. Like the taciturn terminator, No Country for Old Men doesn't move quickly, but the tension never dissipates. This minimalist masterwork represents Joel and Ethan Coen and their entire cast, particularly Brolin and Jones, at the peak of their powers. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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