No Country For Old Men

Was this a good movie? Well, it depends. Was it supossed to make me laugh? Was Javier Bardem in his complex psycho character supossed to make me laugh? If it was, well then the movie was fantastic (at least quite interesting). But if you ask me, having read the book, I'd say: no it wasn't supossed to be funny. It's supossed to be a dramatic thriller about a psycho killer, I think it's disrespectful to the book because it seems quite parodic, as if it was making fun not only of the story itself but also of psychos, southerns, sheriffs, etc. I think it's good that the filmakers do their own view of the stories, but not when it disrespects the original idea. I must say, though, that the movie kept me on the border of my seat (at least when I wasn't rolled in a corner to avoid seeing the blood and the violence, which was most of the time), although it came to a point when it was not so interesting (not to say boring and unnecesary), which was when Josh Brolin's amazing character died, he was who kept the movie alive, not Bardem and certainly not Tommy Lee Jones, he was the one who ruined it, actually. The whole cat and mouse theme was exciting but when the "mouse" dies there's really no point in continuing the movie because there are no interesting characters left, and sometimes it got quite random (there were random scenes during the entire movie, but once the core of the movie is gone, there's nothing to do but to keep adding random scenes, is there?). Plus, it had several outcomes that seem like some kind of easy ways out of important issues. Not to mention the extremely dissapointing ending, I truly think I've been robbed by it, I didn't like it in the book and I certainly didn't like it in the movie. I understand the whole commentary of the violent and random society, but that didn't make the movie good, a movie isn't good just because of the message it sends (and this is a very common mistake among viewers), of course it's an important fact, but it's extremely overshadowed by the flaws that I've already mentioned. I must say, though there were some details (I enjoy the details of the movies) that I found very nice like Bardem's character searching for blood on his shoes (not everybody noticed that one!), and the fact that it had no music at all and still it managed to make you jump in the scary scenes. There's no big deal in this movie at all, I really don't see what the Academy and several other critics sees in it. To me it was just the Coens doing more Coeny things, once again.