No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]
by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Barry Corbin, Beth Grant, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Rodger Boyce
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Composer: Carter Burwell
Editor: Roderick Jaynes
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Product features:

Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Run Time: 122 minutes
Actors: Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce, Josh Brolin, Barry Corbin, Beth Grant

Movie Reviews of No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: The persistence of evil
Summary: 5 Stars

*In a nutshell: A chase film involving, drugs, money and murder.
* Looks superb
*Three featurettes on the making of the film while it isn't bare bones, it deserves better and more special features.
*Try to get it as inexpensive as possible because the Oscar win leads me to believe a DOUBLE DIP will be coming later.
*Won't be everyone's cup of tea but for those who enjoy the work of the Coens this is an exceptional film.

A reflection on mortality, evil and how we can lose our place in the world is the focus of the Coen brothers film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. While set in 1980, the film really (like all films set in the past or future) is really about the average person copes in a world where the rules have changed so rapidly its as if the rug of reality has been pulled out from under us. It's about the changing landscape around us and how we adjust to the brutality that hides beneath the social veneer around us.

In some respects "No Country for Old Men" reminds me of a horror film crossed with a modern day western (something the Coens suggest themselves in the extras).

SOME MINOR SPOILERS:

When Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles over the bodies of drug dealers and cash this Vietnam vet realizes that he's hit the mother lode; no one survived and no one will miss the money. Leaving the drugs, Moss makes off with the cash. When psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh (Academy Award winner Javier Bardem creating the most chilling character since Hannibal Lecter) begins leaving a trail of bodies in pursuit of Moss, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is drawn into the case trying to figure out what happened and try and help Moss before Chigurh catches up to him.

Filled with memorable performances particularly from Brolin and a world weary performance by Jones, "No Country for Old Men" provides the perfect vehicle for the Coens to continue to mine the themes from previous films enrich and add depth to them. As the title implies Bell realizes that he's a man out of time; the world has changed and all his values no longer seem to be the basis for society, behavior and his reality. Chigurh something totally out of Sheriff Bell's experience--a psychopath with his own bizarre moral code who appears to be the devil incarnate punishing those he perceives to have crossed that moral code and often leaving the outcome of his encounters to the randomness of destiny represented by the coin toss he uses to often decide his victim's fate. As Bell learns, however, the violence has always been around him and has seeped into the very ground of the country he love so much but he's at a loss with how to deal with the blunt brutality that is engulfing his world where people had at least the trappings of civilization.

As with "Fargo" and "Blood Simple" the film is a mixture of grim reality and black humor with the latter providing a counterpoint to the few scenes of relentless and brutal violence that Chigurh unleases.

END OF SPOILERS:

The DVD version of "No Country for Old Men" captures the superb photography of Academy Award nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins (who lost probably due to multiple nominations this year). His sweeping involving camera work captures the empty vistas of Texas creating the sense that Bell and others are trapped in something of a no man's land (or Hell...you can interpret it a number of ways). The muted vistas are perfectly rendered in both the DVD and Blu-ray with sharper image quality and detail in the latter particularly during the night scenes.

The 5.1 audio mix deftly incorporates the ambience of the vast undeveloped land that surrounds our characters and comes to life brutally as action scenes are unleashed.

As with most Coen films that appear on home video, there's no commentary track (although cinematographer Roger Deakins would have been welcomed). We do, however, get three long featurettes on the making of the film. Although I suspect we'll see a double dip at some point in the future due to the Oscars the film won, the featurettes really don't do enough to provide us with information on the making of the film compared to many others for lesser films.

"The Making of No Country for Old Men runs about a half hour and has a lot of interviews and clips from the film. The most interesting aspect of this is the comments from the Coens who rarely provide us with a lot of insight into their world outside of the film itself.

"Working with the Coens" has interviews with the actors discussing how they work as a team and their impact on their performances. It's an interesting featurette with some incredible insights from Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem.

"Diary of a Country Sheriff" takes into Ed Tom Bell's world via interviews with Barden, Tommy Lee Jones and others. It provides interesting insights into the difficulty the sheriff has in adjusting to this new, bizarre, brutal world order.

A superb film that looks marvelous on both DVD and Blu-ray, the only drawback to "No Country for Old Men" is the lack of more substantive featurettes, interviews and a commentary track. I can highly recommend this film although I suspect there MIGHT be a double dip down the line (I'm on the fence on this...it needs more but I personally don't want to have to get this twice), this amazing, powerful film remains one of the Coens best since "Fargo". Although this film isn't for everyone, those who have seen other Coen films will enjoy this.

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Summary of No Country for Old Men [Blu-ray]

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DESCRIPTION: Violence and mayhem erupt after a man stumbles upon a bloody crime scene, a stash of heroine and $2 million in cash in Miramax Films No Country For Old Men. Acclaimed filmmakers The Coen Brothers deliver their most viscerally compelling and ambitious film yet in this gripping crime saga in which money is as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable, and where every decision has potentially catastrophic consequences. Adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Cormac McCarthy and starring an acclaimed cast led by Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones, this mesmerizing game of cat and mouse will have you on the edge of your seat until the nail biting end.

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