No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men is a typical Cohen Brothers' colaboration which draws heavily on author Cormac McCarthy's themes of chance and fate. It tells the story of a drug deal gone badly wrong with three men involved (cowboy,psychopath and policeman) crisscrossing each others paths time and time again, until tragedy occurs.
This whole dark piece is peppered with dark humour and painfully tense chase sequences which see saw back and forth amid the painful adjustments of aging cop (Tommy Lee Jones) to the modern world. Josh Brolin,is just great as the quiet cowboy who has a heart hidden within (Do you remember him as the big brother in the The Goonies (1985)??) but the whole film is actually stolen by spanish actor Javier Bardem.who plays a ghost of a psychopath upon which the themes of kismet are centred
Beautifully shot in the Texan wilderness and dirt poor Mexico ,It is a long time since I have seen such a hypnotic thriller.