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BY MAGGIE SCOTT<\/p>\n

Joel and Ethan Coen have adapted Cormac McCarthy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acclaimed novel “No Country for Old Men” into a stomach-churning horror drama. With the stunning kick of a rattlesnake bite, the story is bleak and hideous in its violence.<\/p>\n

Terrell County Texas is being terrorized by a killer (Javier Bardem) so relentless and bloodless he is like a modern day Frankenstein monster that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discovered it really likes drowning little girls.<\/p>\n

The Coens make the tone of Anton Chigurh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rampage more blood-curdling and dreadful with their use of “real people” (instead of bit players from central casting) in minor parts as simple how-dee-do folks who think homespun courtesy and helpfulness will spare their lives when faced with the ghastly man who utters what may become filmdom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest iconic phrase: “Call it.” <\/p>\n

This plague of death is unleashed with the desert massacre of drug smugglers. Their trucks, circled like some perversely bludgeoned wagon train, dust-coated, glass-shattered and blood splattered; their bodies bloating in the wind-scoured dirt—these luckless merchants, their bricks of heroin and their two-million dollar-stuffed valise there for the taking, fill the amazed eyes of local Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who comes upon the scene while tracking a deer he
\nwounded. Dispassionately, he takes it in and takes the money. <\/p>\n

He has an inkling of the sort of persons that will come after him. Sending his sweetly protesting, worried wife (Kelly Macdonald) to her mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for safe-keeping, Llewelyn hits the road, with Anton after him, helped by a tracking device; whose dreaded clicking sound is sure to achieve icon status, as well. Anton has already catatonically butchered several people, while sparing one who correctly guessed the outcome of a coin toss. Llewelyn is cagey and tough; you think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to outwit Anton. You think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s “cut out for it.” But, Anton is a different breed of criminal. <\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear to Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seen it all and still can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comprehend the scope of sadistic mutation evil has undergone. Like a worn down Andy in a Mayberry gone mad, Bell laments the turn society has taken, the diminishment of human caring and decency. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been “taking the measure” of death for a long time, now; and he knows he is “over-matched” this time. <\/p>\n

Brutally brilliant, this is a film with an impact not felt since the likes of such movies as “Bonnie and Clyde”, “The Godfather” and “Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” Miramax Film release rated R for graphic violence, language.<\/p>\n

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