No Country for Old Men (2007)

Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a man of few words -- heck, pretty much everyone in this movie is. Moss happens upon a drug deal gone bad in the middle of the desert: almost everyone's dead and there's a case fat with cash just waiting for a nice guy like him to scoop up.

The first half of this film is beautifully crafted. It's quiet and tense and you understand the decisions that are being made because they're the same decisions you'd make. But then the editing gets weird. Things happen off-screen in such a way that I wasn't even sure they HAD happened...and once one of the central characters gets removed from the plot, there's barely any reason to care about the story any more.

I understand the praise, but the flaws are so huge that it's not even close to being a masterpiece.

B