Writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen tackle the fiction novel of acclaimed American writer Cormac McCarthy in their 13th film. This film's events are set off when a hunter, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), stumbles upon $2 million in cash, several corpses, and stash of heroin in a pickup truck near the Rio Grande. The crooks behind this deal gone bad send Anton Chirgurh (Javier Bardem) after Moss, and hit-man Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson). Chigurh is an unnerving psychopath contolled by Bardem. It's a real testament to Harrelson's talent that Bardem doesn't totally eclipse his charachter. No Country For Old Men isn't a witty comedy by the Coens; it's a measured, violent drama that ranks as one of the year's best. -forrest green III


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