No Country for Old Men

Coen brothers and Cormac McCarthy, do I need to say anymore?

OK, a little more. Here's what happens: Llewelyn Mossout (Josh Brolin) is out hunting in the barren wasteland that is west Texas. He comes up on a drug deal gone bad and takes off with the money (two million 1980 dollars). This is when he makes his first mistake. For some strange reason, he returns to the scene to bring water to a dying man. As they say, without this we got no story. The people who want the drugs and the money back are there waiting for him. In one of the best chase scenes in recent history Llewelyn makes his escape down river as he is pursued by a pit bull that would scare Michael Vick. Just when you think the pit bull is the scariest thing you'd ever want to be chased by, we are are introduced to Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to recover the money and mete out his own twisted brand of justice on Llewelyn and everyone else who gets in his way.

While the chase is the star of this movie, an old school sheriff named Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is the next best thing. He investigates the case, but quickly becomes more interested in rescuing the fugitive from his pursuer than retrieving the cash. He also delivers all the good lines. Upon seeing the death and destruction of the drug deal gone bad the sheriff's deputy says, 'It's a mess, ain't it?," to which Jones replies, "If it ain't, it'll do until the mess gets here."

This movie is rated R and you should take this rating seriously. If you know Cormac McCarthy you know he doesn't celebrate violence, but he knows how to deliver it in it's rawest form.