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No Country for Old Men | 
| Studio: Alliance (Universal)
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 66
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
UPC: 065935815112
EAN: 0065935815112
ASIN: B00126EYMG
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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 Did They Run Out of Money or Time May 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Interesting movie. Two stories being played out at the same time. One modern and violent, the other old and slow.
Most of the last 20 minutes left me wondering why they had bothered with all the details in the first 100. Did they run out of money or time for the actual scenes to be shown?
The last possible murder, which you didn't see, was well done, as was the 2 boys on the bike - nice contrast again between the civilised world and the dark side.
One performance which was a nice surprise was that of Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald). I had seen her performance in State Of Play. Totally different character and accent (she is actually Scottish).
I have seen better performances from most of the actors.
 West Texas never looked so menacing May 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's easy to see why this won best movie of 2007. It's the kind of movie critics salivate over, the same way they salivated over Fargo, what with the great acting, atmosphere, non-linear, non-hollywood structure. The first half of this movie is one of the most intense things I've ever witnessed, just absolute heart-pounding suspense. But then it climaxes with about a half hour left in the movie and becomes a no-action, philosophical bore about the meaning of life . Weird...Still, the first 90 minutes are well worth sitting through the boring final 30 minutes. Give it a chance, you've probably never seen anything quite like it.
A cheap Fargo knockoff April 1, 2008
A pointless program with pointless scenes starting from nowhere and going to nowhere. This could pass time but it has no social redeeming value. All there is is violence for violence sake and then maybe not for that. Dogs get shot and we have to drive in 80's vehicles.
The actors must have been hard up for a film to make. Same people are major ascots and all I can think is that someone must have had something on them because you could not pay them enough to compromise their career.
It is the primitive pre-cell 80's. The unsuspecting good greedy victim was decided to be made a two true Vietnam (60's) person; this is supposed to make him cunning and maybe dangerous. I spent two tours and I am anything but cunning or dangerous. And I never saw a Remington 700BDL (designed for snipers.) Not saying they did not exist but we did things the old fission way with M14's (No bolts) accurate enough for Government work.
On the plus side is that the Texas country was beautiful and Tommy Lee Jones can still make an interesting face.
Stark and Bleak Realism March 29, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is not an easy movie to watch - it is rife with tension and gore - but it is a thought-provoking one. With stark and bleak realism, it shows what can happen when criminals clash with other criminals, law-enforcers, crafty wild cards, and naive bystanders sucked into the criminal vortex. It shows what can happen when a relatively good man succumbs to the temptation to take an illegal route out of poverty, and, crafty though he is, finds himself up against a diabolically smart and ruthless sociopath - someone not likewise burdened by such distractions as a conscience or concern for loved ones. It shows how utterly cold a sociopath can be, and what a trail of destruction he can leave in his wake. Nothing is glossed here. The good guys are not better shots. Bodies do not conveniently disappear. Killings are not veiled or glorified or antiseptic, but graphic, tragic, and messy. Unlike so many action movies, this one does not lean on a punchy soundtrack or quick scene changes to heighten its impact. Rather, it moves in relative real time, and its quietness and its unblinking stare at events are quite dramatic enough. The ending is atypical, too - more of a whimper than a bang - and I think that to be disappointed by this is to miss the movie's point. In this movie, brutality is not depicted as rollicking entertainment, but as the messy, ugly, unfair, disgusting, and just plain depressing thing that it is.
 What the F#%K!?!? March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
About an hour into this I turned to my wife and commented that it may well be the most tension filled movie I'd ever seen. The last time I recall being literally on the edge of my seat like that was Silence of the Lambs, I think. I was blown away right up to the end. Maybe I just didn't get it but I thought it was the worst ending I'd ever seen in such a quality flick. They take us along on a thoroughly enjoyable thrill ride and then just leave everything hanging. They were trying to remain faithful to the book I guess, but I feel a movie where the line is drawn so clearly in the sand must provide some sort of resolution. Through the whole film I was wondering who would ultimately triumph over whom; would good win over evil or vise-versa. There was no way to speculate; we just had to wait and see. And what did we get? Nothin', that's what. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. With any sort of decent conclusion this would have easily been a 5 star film but I'm deducting 2 for the wretched ending. Did I mention I did'nt like the way it ended?
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