Rating: A

I realize it may appear that I throw A’s out to every movie I see. First of all, I never see a random movie. I don’t read specific reviews, but Yahoo! Movies provides a consensus of all reviews. This movie is one of two that I have ever seen to get an A (the other was Godfather). Second, it’s Oscar season. The good films always debut toward the end of the year.

I’m a sucker for Coen Brothers films (O Brother, Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski). I pretty much drove to the theater straight from work after reading about it on Yahoo! There wasn’t a moment of let down.

This movie has the greatest villain in the history film: (at least the ones I’ve seen) Anton Chigurh. He is French, dark, massive, cold, brilliant, mysterious, cunning, murderous; and happens to know quite a bit about medicine and self-surgery (he performs a few on himself). The actor’s name is Javier Bardem, and we’ll have to see if his role as the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar can one-up this one. The film Killing Pablo debuts in 2009.

It’s great Tommy Lee Jones back in his element. The film is set in South Texas and Tommy fits right in as the horse mounted sheriff Ed Tom Bell.

Cinematography A+. Acting A+. Plot A- (an ending you may need to see twice). The audio track to this film was incredible. The actors and their guns was pretty much the only sound throughout the movie. That’s right, not a single note of music (there was a part with a Mexican band however). This movie also features the coolest pit bull on earth.

What really gives this movie an A are the implications. The symbols are open to interpretation, but they’re there. Chigurh is always flipping a coin while Sheriff Bell is always reasoning and analyzing. The American/Mexican border. The drugs and money. What do all these mean? That is the question YOU have to ask. Remember, the question IS the answer, and this film is A all the way.