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Huh? No Country For Old Men? What show is that? I must admit that when my friends asked me to watch this show, I was not exactly thrilled. All I knew prior to the movie was that Tommy Lee Jones is starring in the movie and that the movie is rated NC16 (violence) and had won some acclaimed awards.

But now that I have watched the film, I must say it's pretty good. Faithfully adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men tells the story of an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama that follows.

Though the film started off a lil confusing, the storyline gradually unfolds more as the antagonist Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a professional hitman, hired to retrieve the satchel of money hunts down Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who has made off with the money. It is a lil disturbing though watching Chigurh killing all those in his way, many of whom are actually innocent parties he encounters by chance or drivers of cars he steals for transport.

And by mid-way though the movie, I was thinking who is the lead actor in this movie cos I had no impression at all of Tommy Lee Jone's sheriff character. In fact, I feel that Javier's protrayal as the violent sociopath tends to leave a greater impression on my (and I'm sure other movie goers') mind(s) and the sheriff role has somewhat been relegated to a supporting character instead!

In the end, just when one is more immersed in the storyline and more interested in finding out who will be the final person with the loot, the movie ended abruptly! As the lights came on and the movie goers made their way to the exit, I followed suit and left the cinema pondering over the ending...

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