Monday, November 12, 2007

No Country for Old Men

This is a good movie. At first view, you think it's a movie about Javier Bardem killing everybody in sight with a contraption that is used to kill steer, but I think it's really about what the title says. It's about Tommy Lee Jones as an old sherrif who's looking around at all the drug wars and violence that have landed in his part of Texas and he just can't believe what he's living through. He just doesn't "get" the world anymore.

Garrett Dillahunt is in this movie, and he's also in Assassination of Jesse James. And I didn't recognize him in either movie. Deadwood fans will remember him as the disgusting and evil Francis Wolcott. How I hated that character. Anyway, it appears he's becoming a movie star. He has a good goofy funny supporting role in No Country, the kind of small part that is often memorable in a Coen Bros movie. A lot of the character actors in tiny parts are really, really good in this.

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