No Country For Old Men - FREAKY!!!

I'll try to keep this one short considering i'm in somewhat of a hurry today. No Country For Old Men is quite likely the most heartracing story i've seen in quite some time. If there was a handbook for a way a thriller should be made, this movie sure followed it to the core. Save the last 20 minutes, this movie moves at a pace of a speeding bullet.. (pardon the superman analogy) The ending was rather abrupt and felt inconclusive but i'm assuming that this was done intentionally to let the viewer leave with an open mind.

The story is quite simple at its core. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds a bag with 2 million dollars around a number of dead mexican guys who were trying to smuggle drugs across the mexico-texas border. He walks away with the 2 million without thinking too much into it but is soon tracked down by a killer for hire named Anton Chighur (Javier Bardem) Chighur is a ruthless psychopath who does not stop at any expense. His goal is quite simply to find the 2 million dollars and kill anyone that comes in his way. Soon we're off to the races, as Chighur chases Moss through the deserts of texas stopping at different motels. Moss manages to stay just one step ahead of Chighur until of course the defining moment. Behind both these men is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). Ed Tom is determined to save Moss from the hands of Chighur. Who lives and who dies is the crux of this story.

The performance by Bardem as the psychopathic Chighur is definitely oscar-worthy. A wonderful personification of pure evil. A friend of mine even went as far as to say that his role in the movie is comparable to the infamous hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. Every moment leading up to the moss-chighur encounter has ur heart racing. I must be honest though, I really didn't see much point to the movie as a whole. The ending to the movie was rather abrupt and sudden that it felt very unnatural. This movie is definitely worth a watch but not for the faint hearted. My warning to u... be prepared for gore and utterly gruesome imagery. My final verdict.. i'm still not convinced that this was the best movie of the year last year.. let's see if my mind changes tomorrow, I'm watching "there will be blood" starring daniel day lewis. See you all then.