Ranking The Coen Brothers Movies From Worst To Best
2. No Country For Old Men
Based off the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that grips you from start to finish. Such is the level of attention that it demands, and deserves, from its audience that you don't even notice the fact that the film has no soundtrack through its entire runtime until the music begins to play over the credits. The movie is so good it doesn't even need music.
The multiple Oscar winner is a neo-Western chase across the rolling desert plains of 1980's Texas. The casting is some of the best ever put to screen- with a career best performance from Javier Bardem, that deservedly put him on the map, a particular stand-out. But he is supported by some stunning performances from Josh Brolin (another man who really benefited from the success of this brilliant film), Tommy-Lee Jones and Kelly McDonald.
The films climactic 'And then I woke up' will almost certainly go down as my favourite ending of all time. The writing throughout is enthralling and intense and Anton Chirguh will no doubt go down in history as one of cinema's greatest villians thanks to the Coen's masterful film-making and Bardem's terrifically terrifying and creepy performance. No Country for Old Men is one of the best films you're ever likely to see and would go down as the Coen's finest film if not for one particular gem left...