No Country for Old Men
02/19/2008 Posted by expatgal
Great character studies, great look, great bad guy, atmosphere to spare, OK fine. But a weak story (Tommy Lee Jones mails it in, when ostensibly the title refers to his character) and a truly lousy, lazy, anti-climactic ending. At the show we saw, when the screen went black and the credits started rolloing, someone somewhere in the dark theater exclaimed "Are you kidding me?!" and the whole room laughed. We think they just got tired or ran out of film or something. We think Oscar was stoned when he went to the movies this year, to annoint movies like this one and Atonement as high art rather than seeing them for the unsatisfying, pretentious, pretty but very flawed things they are. I'd have liked both of them a bit more if not for all the hype. As it is they do not live up to their advertising, IMHO
Pros: Javier Bardem, a bad guy for the ages
Cons: pretentious technique and direction for film school geeks, a zero ending that wasn't an ending
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