The Best of the Decade - #4

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen

The Coen brothers have been as consistent as any other filmmakers. There are a few exceptions but for the most part, every one of their films has been fantastic. No Country for Old Men did something different. It put them over the top and into the elite. They took a great story and made a perfect movie in every way. Its a movie so perfect, so structured and so seamless that if you think of one aspect of it, you are so into it, you forget about the other aspects. In other words, Javier Bardem is so, so good, you forget how great Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones are in their performances. Some of the scenes are so chilling, you forget how the whole story begins and ends. All that having been said, the movie flows perfectly. Its not the best movie of the decade but it is perhaps the most perfectly made movie of the decade. Combine those two things and it falls in at number four.