You know, I love the Coen brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen have created some of the most off-beat and fantastic movies and characters in the history of cinema. In fact, in their oeuvre, I would say only Blood Simple stands out as a truly bad movie. The rest range from ”good” to “I have to wear diapers because I laughed so hard”. Even Miller’s Crossing, which I found to be a rather bland crime drama, stands up there with some of the best crime dramas in history.
So it hurts me to see them falter on something like No Country For Old Men. Now I realize they are merely adapting a book (Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same title), so I’m hoping that the shortcomings of this movie are the fault of Mr. McCarthy and not of the Coens.
