I had a friend that dressed up as Anton Chigurh for Halloween, tank and all. He just stood in the corner holding the tank looking at everyone. No one talked to him the whole night.

That final monologue by Tommy Lee Jones is one of the most powerful endings of any movie ever. Just amazing.

My favorite line in any movie is Ellis saying, “You can’t stop what’s comin’. It ain’t all waitin’ on you. That’s vanity.”

The reason Chigurh was acting weird when he first entered the hotel is he was checking for the most efficient way to kill in that room. He checked how far the light switch was from the door, the thickness of the wall so he knew wether he could shoot through it or not, and others that I’m probably forgetting because it’s been a little bit since I’ve sat down and watched it.

My favorite movie. Simone's reaction to the ending was perfect. It's nice to see somebody appreciate how beautiful that final scene is.

I'm glad Simone could see the beauty in that ending. When I first saw this I was 19 and didn't have the maturity to grasp it. Now, looking at my parents who are in their 70s, it has a different resonance. The first time you watch it, you think the Josh Brolin character is the protagonist, but later you realize it's the Sheriff

The shop owner’s mistake was saying “ya’ll been getting any rain your way? Seen you was from Dallas…”. Anton just killed a man, and his car is what the shop owner saw. Now there’s a trail. Had he kept his mouth shut, that encounter wouldn’t have went that way.

When we first met Woody Harrelson, he said that there was a floor missing. It's a fairly common practice for tall buildings to not have a 13th floor because so many people consider the number unlucky. Of course, that means that the 14th floor is really the 13th. The inclusion of this dialog might have something to do with the theme of luck.

Here is a crazy fact for you: Javier Bardem was an established actor in Spain, mostly romantic comedies. He is considered a heartthrob because of the romantic movies he has done. He is amazing!

The part at 12:22 Anton is practicing entering and clearing the room. He’s checking where the light switch is so he can turn it on quickly and neutralize any advantage the defenders would have seeing him sillhouetted in the doorway. You’ll notice in that scene he also checks the thickness of the walls to make sure he can shoot through them in case anyone takes cover.

As someone who grew up in west Texas, the feel, ambiance, emptiness, and townsfolk are spot on

What makes Anton so terrifying is not only the extremely lethal danger of just being near him but the sheer mystery of his character. The whole 'nothing is scarier' element is strong. The fact that he's at large by the end doesn't help, but at least in the novel the authorities pick up on his trail and his days are stated to be numbered. Bardem absolutely delivered.

"I don't think this is a comedy." - No kidding. George is the first reactor I've seen who recognized the cattle gun. Kelly Macdonald, who played Carla Jean, is Scottish. She normally speaks with a thick Scottish accent. You couldn't tell it from this movie. Her dialect was perfect. The quietness of the movie, and the absence of non-diegetic music, makes it more suspenseful. The scene where Chigurh tracks Llewelyn to the hotel room and the shootout that follows is more terrifying because there are no cues telling you what's about to happen. The bullets breaking the windows in the truck without the sound of rifle fire makes you feel like they could be coming from anywhere. The sequence with Chigurh at the motel can be a bit confusing on first viewing. Llewelyn saw when he returned to the motel that someone was there waiting for him, which is why he had the cabbie take him to a different motel, and why he rented the room behind his original room when he returned. Chigurh saw the same thing, but he's smart enough that he didn't barge directly into Llewelyn's original room. Instead, he rented the room next to it, and studied its layout to plan his moves. Then when he burst into Llewelyn's room, he encountered members of the Mexican drug cartel that were waiting for Llewelyn to come back. Chigurh kills them, but by then Llewelyn has extracted the money and left. Anton Chigurh is a fascinating character. He sees himself as carrying out the whims of fate. Because of this, it's impossible to reason with him. Carla Jean calls him on this: "The coin don't have no say. It's just you." But Anton responds with, "Well, I got here the same way the coin did." But then we see that Chigurh is just as vulnerable to random chance as anyone else when the car runs a red light and crashes into him. No Country for Old Men subverts expectations in several ways. It sets us up for a final confrontation between Llewelyn and Chigurh, only to have Llewelyn die off-camera by someone else's hand. Sheriff Bell, the narrator and the "old man" of the title, never even sees or talks to either Llewelyn or Chigurh. And the movie just sort of ends without anything being resolved.

She really felt that ending. It's wonderful.

Anton gave so many people the creeps, absolutely phenomenal acting.

“And then I woke up”…..best final line ever delivered. Simone got it.

That was priceless Simone! So glad you caught on to this film's depth and brilliance.

My dad passed when I was fourteen. Hearing the old man talk in such an abstract manner about his dream actually almost made me tear up knowing that just like him, I will be looking for that fire among the dark and cold, and that my dad would be there, but I will always wake up before I can greet him.

Simone's reaction after Ed Tom's last monologue is beautiful. If you ever watch The Road (both movies are adaptations of Cormac McCarthy novels), be sure to remember the image of "carrying the fire." The more you watch this film, the more brilliant it becomes. Personally, I think it's the Coens' best. Also, the title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." Everything about this film is profound. Including the silence.

"no good deed goes unpunished." The movie. A masterpiece.

This movie is pure art. One of the best films ever made

the line "im older then my father was by 20 years, so in a sense hes the younger man" for some reason really sticks with me.

Tall buildings skip floor 13.... it goes 12 then 14. Superstitions.... That's why the building was missing a floor.

A gas tank doesn't need to be pressurized to explode. In fact, since gasoline is only flammable in its gaseous form, a nearly empty gas tank will explode more readily, and with more force than a nearly full one.

Something I noticed about this film is that they build tension through the landscape as well. When he confronts people they are literally in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around for miles. The sparse population and empty wilderness feels very dangerous. They also reinforce this with the film being really quiet and absence of music.

When I saw this in the theatre awhile after it came out I was the only person there. Such a great experience to see this masterpiece all by oneself on the big screen

"What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?" Epic scene from start to finish. The final scene with Llewellyn's wife, when Shigur leaves the house, and you wonder if you should be happy or sad...and then he checks his shoes. The movie does so much with tiny details.

Some buildings are built without a numbered 13th floor because of superstitions. They go from the 12th floor to the 14th. I had thought they had stopped this practice, but it may still be going on.

Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the title of "No Country for Old Men" comes from the opening line of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats.

This movie has my favourite soundtrack 😜

I’m sure I read somewhere that the American Psychologist council (or whatever they’re called) said Javier’s portrayal of a psychopath was the most accurate they’d ever seen in a movie. That’s what makes him so creepy, like a true psychopath he’s showing zero emotion 😬

I've only seen the movie once (just a couple of months ago) so I don't have really many thoughts about it yet; my experience was pretty much a quiet meditation on evil. But the really, really impressive thing about this movie is how well it captures not only the story and the dialogue of the novel, but that it actually feels like a cinematic translation of the literary art of Cormac McCarthy. What he says with words, and how he says them -- the combination of simplicity (except when he ain't), horror, and beauty -- is captured incredibly on the screen by the Coens. I adore how they're both capable of portraying absolute horror with such absolute beauty. This is my favorite Coen movie and by far my favorite cinematography by Roger Deakins. You being blown away like that reminded me of how I felt when I finished McCarthy's latest novel "The Road", the most powerful reading experience of my life. So much so that I refuse to watch the film version.

I love the last scene of this film. The Sheriff explaining his dreams from the night before always leaves me very emotional. I'm curious what about that ending monologue made you guys feel emotional or was it from something else that resonated with you from earlier in the film? I always look forward to seeing reactor's reactions to this specific part of this movie.

by the end of this reaction we have the two types of people who watch this movie perfectly summed up. Simone visibly moved and in tears over Tommy Lee Jones' monologue. George going "whut, lol"

I love how methodic Chigurn is. He rents the room to see how the layout of the roons are, he even check the closet, to see if is big enought for someone to hide in there.

Due to superstition, many buildings omit the 13th floor, but everyone on the 14th floor of those buildings knows exactly what floor they're really on. This could be why Woody counted fewer floors from outside.

This is one of those movies you have to watch multiple times and really think about. Bardem gave one of the best performances ever.

The fact that they managed to build up so much tension and emotion with no score at all is crazy. Took me three viewings to realize that there was no music at all

Great movie, epic performance by Bardem - I knew watching him reminded me of something, but I couldn't remember what - it finally came to me. Decades ago I was at a zoo and saw a row of enclosures with big cats. In one, there was a melanistic leopard, a.k.a. a black panther, pacing back and forth. I stopped to look at the cat, and it stopped and just stood there staring at me - no detectable emotion, just laser-focused on me - and I suddenly knew in my bones that if there hadn't been a barrier between that cat and me, I'd already have been dead when I had the thought. One of the most chilling experiences I've ever had - hard to explain how it felt. Bardem's character reminds me of that cat. About the car blowing up: it would depend to a great degree on how much gas was in the tank. It's counterintuitive, but the most explosive situation would be for the tank to be almost empty, because it isn't the liquid gasoline that explodes, it's the air full of gasoline vapor. It's what the military calls an FAE, a fuel-air explosive, like the thermobaric bombs (a.k.a. vacuum bombs) that have become controversial in recent years. The same thing can happen with air that is full of flammable particles, especially if they have a static electric charge - that's why grain silos blow up sometimes. If the car's tank was completely full, it might start a fire that would end up consuming the car, but not blow it up.

Javier Bardem was the clear choice for the Oscar. Well deserved. To show his range, the next movie he did was the brilliant Woody Allen movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz (who later became his wife). Definitely one to consider watching as I do not believe you have reacted to any Woody Allen movies. He may be a pervert but he's a talented pervert. If not this, I highly recommend "The Purple Rose of Cairo".

That Neverland joke is priceless!!! One incredible strength with this movie is the absence of music. It serves the tension very well.

I've seen a car blow up like that. The engine overheated and caught fire, and when it got to the gas tank, it was a pretty big explosion. It was fire season, so everyone was scrambling to put the pieces that went flying out before the fire really spread. Luckily the fire trucks came because there were a lot of pieces!

I would assume someone in hiding in a motel room would come out of hiding once a person investigating the room left as they wouldn't expect a person searching a room to leave, then re-enter right away. My guess is he immediately re-entered the motel room after leaving to catch someone coming out of hiding.

One of the most terrifying villan/hitman in movie history! Javier Bardem nailed it! He styled his hair that way to make him look even more terrifying for the role!

The gasstation scene is my fav scene of any movie. This movie is an absolute masterpiece.

He re-enters the motel room quickly to practice opening the door and turning the light on fast.. He then inspects things like wall widths etc to see if he can shoot through them.. terrifyingly calculated. Deserving of his Oscar for this performance.

Fun fact: psychiatrists performed a recent study and found that Anton Chigurh is the most realistic depiction of a psychopath ever put to film

The Coen brothers are my favourite living filmmakers. Kubrick is my all-time favourite. I love old gangster movies from the 1930s and 40s, so their early movie, "Miller's Crossing", set in a 1920s Chicago-style city, is my favourite Coen film. You must see it to believe it. John Turturro's performance will blow you away.

7:59 Calm yet menacing, inhuman, all accurate descriptions of Anton!!! A truly unique villain 👌🏾🍿🎬😈

I saw this opening weekend. I was stunned at its enormity. I sat in my seat for about 30 min after the ending. It was so much to take in. When it won best picture, it was obvious and natural.

The wife (Carla Jean) was played by Scottish actress, Kelly Macdonald. Kelly Macdonald was Diane in Trainspotting. I don’t know if you’ve seen Trainspotting yet but it’s quite the ride.

Great review. As a native Texan, I was very impressed with Carla Jeans accent. The actress is from Scotland.

The reference to the missing floor is due to the fact that hotels don't have a thirteenth floor. If you're in a 20 story building the top,floor would be 21.

For the car explosion, gasoline produces vapors that are pretty explosive. But there needs to be only half a tank or less (of gas) for it to blow up instead of just catching on fire.

(14:22) Just FYI, the floor missing is of course the 13th floor. In buildings of higher floors, the 13th floor is omitted because it's considered a bad luck numbered floor.

I think the main message of the movie is: Life Isn’t Fair. For half the movie we expect it to play out how any old Western would; Our stereotypical masculine cowboy hero will kill the lunatic villain and walk off with the money, except that isn’t how life works. We expect the Sheriff to somehow piece the whole thing together and put an end to the chaos, but he never does, because that’s not how life works. The unfairness of life is the rule Anton lives by and chooses to identify with, acting as an instrument of death driven by chance and the unluckiness of anyone who crosses his path. Except even he is subjected to the unfairness of life when he drives through a green light and is still struck by a random speeding driver. A movie hasn’t made me think this much in a long time and I’m so glad I finally watched it. Great reaction guys!

By far one of my favourite movies. The Scene in the hotel where the shootout spills into the street and their is no accompanying music. Just the sound of gunshots and footsteps. It's so quiet and so unnerving.

After I initially watched this movie I read that many people (myself included) mistake Josh Brolin as the main character but it’s actually Tommy Lee Jones. That’s why it’s called No Country for Old Men, he’s just an older sheriff that can’t keep up the way he used to. That’s why his dad in his dream goes on up ahead until it’s time for him to catch up.

14:35 that missing floor could be the 13th floor. As it is considered bad luck to have one, some elevators in buildings don't have the number and the real 13th is numbered 14.

Well done, George. You are the first reactor I've seen who recognized Anton's cattle gun for what it is right away. Most people wonder the whole time what that thing is and only understand when the sheriff talks about it near the end of the movie.

Underrated IMO - a silent death that lingers on and on and on. The lethal deft turn by Bardem is beyond petrifying (like a predator - which Anton is - he's stealthy deadly) and the morose one-two-punch of Brolin & Jones is a fine counterpoint. One of the best endings in the film. Just.Ends. The title says everything. Nice job guys.

I only saw this movie for the first time a couple of years ago but it instantly became one of my all time favorites. The production value of this movie is insane

The Coen Brothers are master film makers. There's very little in this movie (and Fargo, too) that you could improve upon. Kelly Macdonald, the actress who played Carla Jean, is actually Scottish and has a pretty thick Scottish brogue. But her southern accent in this movie is quite convincing. Great reaction. Thank you.

14:30 The “missing” floor is the 13th floor. Due to superstition, many buildings are built without a 13th floor; the numbering goes from 12 to 14.

Geez, I've seen this movie countless times and always take away something new from it. This time I finally realized why Anton kicked in his own door and fliipped the lights on in his hotel room after just having left. He was memorizing the room so his eyes dilating when the lights flipped on wouldn't be an issue for him after he kicks in the door in the next hotel room. Chigurh's attention to detail and planning is terrifying

I've been waiting for this one. This is one of those movies that everyone should watch. 14:23 He's referring to the superstitious practice of skipping 13 when numbering floors in a building.

To make a movie w no score is just wild. This will forever be an all time great movie, the performances, the cinematography just memorable.

No country for old women too! The mother was only 58 but looked like she was 75...

oh i'm so hype to see this reaction! this movie works on you on so many levels, i'm already recalling the sheriff's dream story at the end

Yes, that can happen to a vehicle by lighting cloth in the gas tank. A explosion would depend on the amount of gas in the tank, if the tank was full it might not happen, but half full the flame could travel and cause an explosion due to the gas vapors. Then again I have never done it.

My old Highschool Weight Training Coach always called me No Country and I never understood what he meant until he told me to watch this movie. Apparently I looked like Bardems character and I never knew it. On another note, an instructor at a Trade School always hummed or sang the Stelio Kontos song from American Dad everytime we walked by each other, that guy was hilarious.

Cigur just walking away like that is one of the single best scenes in all of film history. We rarely see that kind of thing happen in movies which in part has a big effect, but also just by how casually it's done and then goes to TLJ and you think something still might happen to Cigur and then it ends. Brilliantly done.

"Oh Brother, Where art Thou?" is another Cohen Brothers classic. I'd love to see you react to it.

the missing floor is sometimes the 13th. buildings over 13 stories sometimes will skip from 12 to 14.

14:25 A lot of buildings over 13 floors would not label floor 13 as such, naming it the 14th floor on the directory and elevator, just skipping the 13th floor, mostly out of superstition.

Movies and video games often show cars blowing up when their gas tanks are shot. However, this is not actually possible, as gas tanks are very well-protected from fire and explosions. In order for a fire to start in a gas tank, there would need to be a lot of oxygen present, which is not usually the case.

14:25 - "There's one missing floor". Basically in America, many older buildings don't label the 13th floor. The elevators jump from 12 to 14 due to superstitions of the past. That was the premise behind his confusion.

The missing floor line is because tall buildings in USA skip floor 13 when numbering, cus the 13th floor is bad luck.

Great pick and great reaction guys. If you haven’t already seen it-and I don’t think you have-I would highly recommend Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.” Both came out the same year (2007) and tell different stories, but are similar, quiet, well done masterpieces of filmmaking. Daniel Day Lewis is phenomenal. Both films deal with greed, power and terror in completely opposite ways. So so good.

You guys did the best reaction to this movie than any I’ve seen. No talking over important dialogue, no cracking jokes just to hear themselves laugh, no over-analyzing while the movie is playing. Just an intelligent conversation over the movie at the end. Well done.

I always saw it as Anton is literally the embodiment of death. Some he’s sent after for their sins, some are chance/fate (coin flips) and then there’s Tommy Lee Jones living by choosing to walk away.

I love that Llewellyn and Anton not only never have a showdown, but it's not even him that kills him. Also, that we never see it. It's just matter of fact. Like the bad guy doest always get their comeuppance.

The missing floor is because a lot of buildings will skip the 13th floor out of superstition. obviously theres still a 13th floor but the numbers will go straight from 12 to 14

In America (maybe in canada some too?) They usually skip the thirteenth floor in buildings, so buildings over 13stories are usually "missing" a floor.

Skyscrapers don't have a 13th floor. It's a superstition thing. That's what Woody was commenting on in the office. The building was missing a floor.

The thing Anton uses to kill or to remove door locks is called a Captive Bolt Pistol. They were created to stun animals (particularly cattle) prior to slaughter. Used on a cow, it will knock the cow unconscious. Humans, of course, have much thinner skulls.

Fun Fact: The scene in the gas station is show in film schools to show how to create tension! (Similar to the beginning scene in Inglourious Basterds)

The quick room check was to see if anyone would come out of hiding after he left... To catch them off guard

Trivia... when the old man in the wheelchair is talking about sending the badge and the "thumb-buster" off to the Ranger museum. "Thumb-buster" is slang for old single action Colt Peacemaker which some Texas Rangers used before (and maybe even after) WWII.

Javier Bardem had already established himself as the best actor in Spain by the time he made this movie. I am so glad he broke through to an English Speaking country so we can also enjoy his talent

Great choice! Please react to the Coen Brothers’ brilliant *True Grit* with Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, and Hailee Steinfeld!

And the scene of Anton opening the door twice at the motel is he is methodical, he knows the layout from the map, and that’s why he grips the closet wall, to see if it was thick enough to shoot through

Not a hidden floor. Many older buildings skip the 13th floor because it's unlucky so the 13th is labeled 14th. I'm surprised you don't know about this cause it's definitely a thing in Asia just different numbers are considered unlucky. In Japan 4 and 9 are unlucky.

With every thumbnail Simeone manages to up the crazy eyes. Love it 😂

I’m glad we are 3 minutes in and you’re noticing stuff I didn’t notice until my second watch. Fun film, thank you for posting your reaction.

12:30 he is making a practice entry on the same style room. checking where the light switch is, where to expect the guy on the bed, how thick the wall is to the bathroom etc..

One of my ALL TIME favourite movies

carson (woody) asking about there being a floor missing is three things, 1. shows how attentive he is, would you notice if the elevator numbers didnt match the number of floors u saw from outside? 2. its a reference to how back in the day a lot of buildings would exclude the number 13 from the floor and room numbers as it was seen as unlucky and people wouldnt want to stay in the 13th floor or room, so they’d skip it and mark it 14th, and 3. its possibly implying that the business has a floor that isnt open to anyone where they do their less legal business

so glad you guys appreciated the ending, you may be the first reactors i've seen whose response wasn't "that's it?!" like you said, the thematic link between sheriff bell's dream and the rest of the movie is pretty clear if you think about it for more than one second. also there IS music. carter burwell created a series of low ambient tones that he often mixed with the rest of the sound design. they're hard to hear, especially on first viewing, but they're there. his original idea was an all-percussion score which would have been a very different movie.

Hell of a movie! For somebody who was used to Coen Bros. movies like "Raising Arizona", and, "The Big Lebowski", this movie came as a total shock to me when I first saw it.