No Country For Old Men (another review!)

I don’t often leave the cinema thinking what the hell was that all about?!

There’s this guy who somehow finds large amounts of money (I think I was in the loo when that happens, so I can’t be sure how exactly that came about). Then there’s these people whose money it is. And because said money appears to be the proceeds of some drugs business or other, they don’t like this guy running off with it.

So they hire a hitman with a bowl hair cut who enjoys nothing better than randomly killing people with some kind of air canister. Or a big gun. At a push, he’s equally happy to throttle folk with a set of handcuffs. Sometimes he doesn’t kill people. That’s if they give the right answer in his bizarre coin tossing experiment.

So, yeah, man with money on the run. Hitman in pursuit. The latter is easy because the money was cunningly fitted with a tracker device, for which bowl haired hitman has a baby blue remote control tracker device tracker. Very handy.

Off they trundle and a rather frightening game of cat and mouse springs into action. And because this is Hicksville America, there’s a lot of staying in motels, doing things with coathangers and airconditiong shafts in motels and even more random bloodspill in motels.

A LOT of people are killed, but one cannot be certain why. They just seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They’re shot in the head, they’re shot in the foot, they’re shot at close range, they’re even shot through shower curtains. Sometimes there is no indication of how they were shot and they just lie about the scenery dead and random. He even shot the dog.

And because the whole thing comes across as very anti-Hollywood, the halfbaked hero gets killed, too. So does the guy who was supposed to rescue him. They all wore cowboy boots. An important lesson is learnt here: do not wear cowboy boots, for it gets you killed.

And since he is the only survivor, I presume the Sheriff played some kind of important role in this. Film starts with Sheriff. Film ends with Sheriff (albeit retired by that point).

And I can’t even say if this was a good film or a bad film. Probably not a bad one at all (I have seen Good Will Hunting, half of Titanic and Epic Movie. Now those are bad films), if only I’d managed to follow the plot.

The mind boggles.