Definitely picked up on more going through the edit but the movie builds so much tension and leaves a lot left to unpack! Chigurh will haunt us for a long time coming! Thank you all for the support!

Crazy thing about this movie that almost no one notices: there is no musical score

The absence of music in this film just adds to the tension and is one of the many things that makes this film such a masterpiece.

This is probably the best depiction of a psychopath ever put to screen. It’s honestly so unnerving yet so calm.

Fun fact: the scene where Llewellyn crosses over into Mexico and is woken up on the street by the Mariachi band, the song that they're singing translates as the following: "You wanted to fly without wings, you wanted to touch the sky, you wanted too much wealth, you wanted to play with fire".

Being from Texas myself, Kelly McDonald had one of the best Texas accents I'd ever heard knowing she is Scottish.

I love the little exchange between Chigurh and the kids at the end. "What would you take for the shirt?" "I can give you my shirt." And you get a fraction of a hope that there are still decent people left in the/this world, but then as soon as the money enters the equation, the kids start arguing about it.

I love how this film blows away all the hollywood cliches and conventions. Its so good.

I know Javier Bardem gets a ton of love for his performance and rightly so. But I love Tommy Lee Jones in this; he seems so beat down and weary throughout having to witness all this carnage. His final monologue is the perfect cap on the entire film. "And then I woke up." And I know yall just watched Fargo, another Coens movie. But whenever I watch this film, I think of Marge's words following her discovering the guy shredding his partner in the wood chipper. "And for what? For a little bit of money? There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it." Look at Llewellyn and his wife; was that money really worth it in exchange for their lives?

Fun fact: No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were both shot concurrently, sharing some of the same shooting locations in New Mexico. At one point the Coen Brothers had to stop shooting due to massive smoke clouds caused by the oil fire scene in There Will Be Blood.

The movie makes more sense when you realize Tommy Lee Jones is the main character.

Javier is such a charming Spaniard but somehow he transforms himself into this monster. His Oscar is well deserved

In my personal interpretation the protagonist isn't Llewellyn, It's Ed the Sheriff, The movie opens with a monologue by him and ends with a monologue by him, He's the narrator and works as the neutral expectator in the unravel of the story, and he is the only one who has a clear arc in the story, He starts the movie by talking about how simple the times were in the old days, He believes the world around him is getting more violent, Until he hears the story about his deceased uncle in that conversation inside the shack where he realizes the world he knows has always been this violent and will aways be this violent because violence is a force of nature, it's nonsensical it has no meaning, which is best examplified by the whole character of Anton Chigurh that kills people without reason and decides on a man's death with a flip of a coin, That's the raw reality the Sheriff has to accept

They’ve won four academy awards for best supporting actor, best adapted screenplay, best director, and best picture

The coin toss scene with the gentleman in the gas station is probably my favorite scene in all of cinema. The tension and weight to the whole conversation left me shook.

Anton Chigurth is one of the greatest villains ever. I never thought a coin flip could be so scary.👍

This is probably, if not definitely, Javier Bardem's best work. He's chilling throughout the entire thing. Glad you guys got around to reacting to this one.

I really liked the ending monologue the more I thought about it. You really feel the Sheriff's tiredness and dismay at what the world has become. The Sheriff feels like an alien in an unfamiliar world which saddens him. Nostalgia is really a strong motivator and emotion for a lot of people even if the good ole days they remember weren't actually the rosy bliss they imagine it to have been.

This film is a masterpiece. And oddly enough, the first time I saw it, I was underwhelmed. I didn’t really get what it was trying to “say”. But this is definitely one of those situations where the more you watch it, you pick up more and more each time and now it’s easily in my top 3. So happy to see this reaction.

Good job on noticing at 15:16 that he was practicing his bust in and memorizing the layout of the room, because he knew they'd be similar. No other reactors I've seen have noticed that.

A second viewing with this film really opens eyes of what you missed: The Jeep that is in the background when Llewellyn was talking to that woman in the hotel, The coin Ed finds on the ground in the crime scene (it is heads...as if Ed won the coin toss)

There are many clues that Chigurh was hired by the business man. He was talking with the other two guys before they got whacked by him. Plus the business guy himself said to Woody Harrelson's character "We have a loose cannon here" implying Anton was initially working for him to track the money. What I love about this movie is how Chigurh feels almost like a force of nature, he doesn't interact with almost anyone unless is to kill them and acts savagely, but with his own set of rules. For example in the hotel scene, he shoots but you barely even see anything but a shadow of him, straight out of a horror movie like you said.

Great reaction guys! I like to think the car crash with Chigurh was to show that he himself is not immune to fate, which he thought he was an agent of. He could have died in that crash but by luck and having to rely on the kindness of strangers (funnily enough), he got lucky.

I was in a cinematography class at UCLA Extension when this came out. My teach stopped the class to express his amazement at the lighting that Roger Deakins was able to get.

To call this film a masterpiece is an understatement. It gets so much better with every rewatch.

Aside from my love for this movie; the store clerk's scene is my favorite bit of dialogue of any movie. Javier was amazing throughout the movie, but Rutherford Cravens deserves credit there for making that a perfect scene

"Didn't mean nothing" still the most chills out of a non horror character

They don’t mention in it in the movie, only mentioning that Lewellyn was a Vietnam veteran, but in the book it’s stated that he was a sniper, hence his tracking and survival skills

Didn't Samantha mention at one point that she likes the show King of the Hill? If so, FUN FACT: 17:32 That's Stephen Root, the voice of Bill Dauterive.

A movie that gets better and better with subsequent viewings.

When he won his oscar for this role here, he really deserved the win.

One of the most compelling, no-bullshit movies ever. Chigurh is such an interesting and entertaining villain. A few more Coen Brothers recs for you guys: Barton Fink (where, like Lebowski, John Goodman steals the show), Miller's Crossing (stylish mob flick) and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (great western anthology).

Near the end when Chigurh is in the hotel room and they show the open vent grate, I believe they are eluding to him getting the money that Moss hid in there. The tracker is gone but since Moss previously hid the money in the vents, Chigurh knew where to look.

Fun Fact: the actress who plays Carla Jean Moss is from Scotland and is the voice of Merida in the Disney film Brave using her natural Scottish accent. She’s also in Gosford Park.

Bardem delivered an absolutely chilling performance that really stole the show. Me and some buddies saw this in the theater back then and we'd tightly grip the arms of our chairs whenever he showed up onscreen. Such was the raw tension. Especially the gas station scene.

16:56 ...."His coins come in handy".... The power of change..... XDXDXD

"Woody Harrelson does not stand a chance..." You should look into Woody's background and family life. Also, Bardem's portrayal as Anton Chigurh was named the 'Most Realistic Depiction of a Psychopath' by an independent group of psychologists in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

The Coen brothers are SO versatile, but their off-kilter style comes through in all their movies: this one is very different from "Fargo," and they're both very different from their 2010 Remake of "True Grit," which was truly unique: it's not easy to remake a classic (a John Wayne classic at that) and, arguably, improve on the original - but the Coen brothers did it. I hope y'all see their "True Grit" sometime, even if you don't react to it. You'd love it.

The brilliancy of the Coen brothers is their ability to cinematize subtleties that have to be read between the lines in the book by McCarthy. A thorough comprehension of the spirit of the book paired with their already dark and pessimism evoking creativity is what makes this film a masterpiece along with its contemporary There Will Be Blood. One of my favorite parts of this movie is when Tommy Lee Jones tells the wife about the guy who injured himself killing a cow (one of the most defenseless creatures) to where he couldn't lift his arm above his head. After Anton kills the wife (arguably the most defenseless person in the film), he gets injured by no fault of his own, where he can't lift his arm above his head. Beautiful portray of moral chaos even to those who strictly live by moral order. My two cents 🍺

Fun Fact:Scientists studied a lot of character villains like about 400 characters and they choose Anton Chigurgh as the most realistic psychopath of all time .

I love how this movie ignores typical conventional movie rules. The cat and mouse between Bardem and Brolin lead to...them not having a final confrontation! And Brolin getting killed off screen, and Bardem just walking away and not getting caught. One of my favorite scenes is Tommy Lee Jones with his uncle talking about his family's past. The older I get, the more I appreciate the abrupt ending (and especially Tommy's monologue about his dreams).

Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture. What's interesting is that the hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and the villain (Javier Bardem) never meet in any scene of the movie

Kelly McDonald , who is Scottish and has the accent to prove it, delivers such a great performance in this, especially that Southern USA accent she uses.

As a night owl, can I say that, I love the fact that yall upload so late at night. always a treat coming across a new vid late at night. Great job and keep up the awesome content!

Brolin represents humankind's greed, Bardem represents humankind's mindless violence, and Jones represents the law who is useless to stop it and the reminiscing about better times that never were. The greed and mindless violence have always been here just in different forms.

Love Kelly MacDonald in this. Makes me proud to be Scottish ❤️

The killer in this movie is actually from Spain. And he had to have that special hair style for 3-4 months during the making of the film . Also during breaks when they weren't filming he would go into stores to buy food & drinks and the people would be scared of him. At the end of shooting the whole film he says " They brought me a cake and on each candle were the faces of all the people I killed " 😂.

Haven’t felt a cut to black so profoundly since The Sopranos, which you guys should definitely check out if you haven’t!! (Another good tv show would be Twin Peaks - it’s David Lynch 😌)

With all of the happy comfort food audiences have become accustomed to, this is a much needed dose of reality.

Milk drinking is generally a callback to the character of Barnaby Jones, a detective that would famously go into bars and order milk. This was because he wanted to be completely clear minded. It's since been adopted in countless movies and TV shows with no B.S. type characters.

There are a million things I could say about the movie to explain various parts. The train sounds representing his unstoppable nature, the reason why he probably spared the accountant, his sense of honor, his reasons for killing, which side he's on, how the movie panders to no one...

One of the few react channels, where you guys reacted perfectly!! Didn't talk over the scenes a lot, yet gave their two thoughts without interrupting the pace of the movie. All in all an honest reaction and not faked like all these other react channels out there!! Keep it up guys!! 👍

As soon as you said you studied one of the scenes in film school I knew which one it was. Kelly Macdonald, who played Carla Jean, is Scottish, and she speaks with a Scottish accent. Her accent in this movie was perfect. I was surprised to learn she isn't from the American south. No Country for Old Men is an unconventional movie in a lot of ways. There's no musical soundtrack or score, and there's a lot of silence. The story sets us up to expect a confrontation between Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh, but it doesn't happen. Llewelyn Moss dies off-camera, and the killer isn't even Chigurh. The story ends abruptly, without anything really being resolved. I think the car crash that happens near the end shows that Chigurh isn't in control of things as much as he believes, despite his rules. He's just as subject to the random forces of life as anyone else. One thing I like about the Coen Brothers is that they have memorable bit characters. The manager at the trailer park, the salesman at the western wear store, the woman at the pool, Carla Jean's mom, were all distinct and interesting characters despite their minimal screen time.

When Bell went to the hotel and you see Chigurh behind the door it is all in Bell's imagination as he knows Chigurh has been there, he is just thinking if that is how he will confront him.Also Chigurh definitely ended up with the money as you see the coins that he used to open the grate on the vent but also you see him give that kid on the bike a nice new $100 bill after he gets in that accident.

Raising Arizona & True Grit are my favorite Coen brothers movies. Great movies!

An absolute masterpiece in every way. Hard to pick out a favourite element. It's just an accumulation of sensational talent that grips you from start to end. With the greatest antagonist in cinema history in my opinion. I have to admit, first time through I was left reeling and confused. Have watched it again and again since. Never fails to hold my full attention. Great reaction Schmitts :D

"What you got is nothing new. This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming."

The title for this film comes from Sailing To Byzantium, a poem by William Butler Yeats. It is another Coen brothers masterpiece. Again, they are masters of irony because Moss goes back to the sight of the execution to give a man water, yet the man is already dead; thus sealing his fate. I compare this movie to HALLOWEEN as being a straight up horror film and Chigurh is really a version of Michael Myers. A kind of unstoppable killing machine. I think, for me, the movie is about how we are eventually unable to stop anything, especially the older we get. This world is especially tough for the aged, even if it can be brutally harsh for the young. The older you get, the more experience you have, but your usefulness becomes less and less. Anyway, I so love Tommy Lee Jones in this. He is such a great actor. Some trivia: Jones was roommates with Al Gore at Harvard. He got his start in acting on the soap opera One Life To Live. If you get a chance, do a reaction for COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER. He plays Loretta Lynn’s husband Doolittle. You’ll be blown away by his performance and Sissy Spaceck’s performance as Loretta Lynn.

Movies like this are rare, pure, raw, no filler or bloat, just raw rotting meat throughout the picture...........love it. Masterpiece.

"Why do crazy people always like drinking milk?" **nervously eyes the multiple cartons of milk in my fridge**

Samantha sees an unmade bed and her first reaction is "They left in a hurry." I literally have not made my bed in nearly 40 years. What's the point? I'm just gonna mess it up again tonight. A completely pointless task. (Technically untrue. Whenever I change out sheets I do it up nice. I make my bed every 10 days, two weeks.)

Most people were shocked when the 'main character' was killed, because they never realized that Tommy Lee Jones is the main character. He is the first person that you hear talking in the film, and the last.

the lady lived because she stuck to her own rules and spoke with clarity, didn’t mince words

You should read the novel and you will see that a lot happens "off screen" there too, and a lot of questions are not answered. This was a very faithful adaptation for the most part.

The Coen's snatch away from us the viewers the predictable showdown between Brolin's character and Chigurh. Some other mindless mayhem interferes and kills him which just shows what a violent, merciless world the characters live in. There's not just the psychopath Chiguhr roaming around, but other feral groups of outlaws out for their own greed. Hence the title of the film says it all.

Probably one of the great adaptations of a book to film in terms of absolutely capturing the essence of it.

I love this movie. I went to an Art house theater to see this and soon as it ended people were like, "What? That's it? That was dumb..." It's an unconventional ending but sometimes life doesn't make sense and the bad guy gets away.

'Oh brother' should be your next Cohen brothers movie.

Raising Arizona is a must see. I'm also a big fan Blood Simple and Barton Fink.

Javir Bardem, Heath Ledger and Christoph Waltz won three consecutive Academy Awards for their portrayals of the villain.

I felt simialrly the first time watching. The beginning and ending made me wonder what the story was really about. It's only clear after re-watching it and/or reading the book, that it's Sheriff Bell's story. The prologue and epilogue are the bookends to the films themes, and the rest is a masterful cat-and-mouse game facilitated by a pure evil that Bell can never understand. Once I realized that, this became a top 5 movies of all-time. No music, minimal dialog, and the mood of existentialism are the most amazinglly exexuted elements I have ever seen. A true masterpiece of storytelling.

I loved how you both mention it feels like a horror film during the hotel scene/sequence. The suspense is so compelling and scary, along with the setup that it definitely makes it feel like a horror film during that part. I never really thought about that before (and I’m a huge horror fan), but rewatching and dissecting that scene it really is shot like a straight up horror film.

31:17 - One of the best things about this movie is that, for almost the entire runtime, there is no music/musical notes. The tension without music is so good.

So glad you finally caught this one. I think the brilliance of this movie is that it leads us to expect a showdown, and when it doesn't happen, we are left to question "what now? What's the story really about?" The three main characters almost don't even appear on screen together. I love how the movie undermines convention and forces us to participate in the telling of the story.

When he goes into the motel room at the end Shugar is setting in his car in the parking lot watching him. It's in the book.

FUN FACT: This genre of movie is known as an "eastern," wherein the bad guy prevails. This is in contrast with the prototypical "western," wherein it's the white hat who wins. What sets this version of an eastern apart from the pack is the Cohen Brothers' genius in never having the protagonist Sheriff Bell and the antagonist Anton Chigurh meet.

You'll never look at a coin flip the same again 😀

There's a lot to love about this movie, but the part that might stick with me the most is when Tommy Lee Jones is visiting his old family friend. He tells him that violence has always been a part of life and the line "You can't stop what's comin'. It ain't all waitin' on you. That's vanity." I think about that conversation a lot.

Your comment "that it was like we missed the beginning and the ending of the movie," is possibly the best critique of the film ever.

One of the best movies there is. Also objectively one of the scariest villains, because people like him exist in real life. No concern for life, just a biological machine existing in society, killing without concern or conscious.

Read the book....you will be amazed... He allowed himself to be arrested, he explains it in the book during his conversation with Woody's character....

My favorite part of every one of your videos is when Samantha says "Hello!"

I think that the crash at the end represents the fact that as you said she made him break his own rule, that is why he wasn't focused on anything while driving because he was taken aback

Wow y’all did such an amazing job with your analysis of this for a first time viewing. Picked up on way more of the subtle cues than I did when I first watched it. Really enjoyed your reaction, great work!

The gas station scene is a callback to a scene from Raising Arizona. It's almost exactly the same set. ... "He's seen the same things I've seen, and it sure made an impression on me."

This movie is the perfect example of a movie doing a book true justice. Such a good rendition of an amazingly tight book!

An interesting detail about the ending where Anton gets t-boned by the other vehicle: there's a theory going round that the reason why this happens is because Carla-Jean refused to call the coin toss. Let me explain:- Throughout the movie, Anton is an almost unstoppable force of destruction. The Coen brothers cleverly refuse to elaborate on whether this is due to mundane or supernatural reasons - Anton could just be a hyper-focused psychopath whose sheer confidence alone makes him stand head-and-shoulders above the rest of us as a predator. Alternatively, it could also be that Anton's constant good luck and amazing intuition are actually signs that he really IS protected by some kind of higher power. So what happened at the end when he got smashed? Well, depending on how you see it: - Anton was so dogmatic about his 'rules' that Carla-Jean's refusal to call the coin toss psychologically broke him. Because Anton truly believed that his 'rules' were the only thing keeping him in good grace with God or whoever was watching over him, he suddenly lost that killer confidence which enabled his hyper-focus... Just long enough to be t-boned (Anton probably would have never missed that spot check before he dealt with Carla-Jean and you can even see he looks visibly distracted before it happens). - Anton actually DID have his divine assistance revoked by taking liberties with the 'rules' and the car crash is the beginning of a long line of misfortunes coming Anton's way. This is likely what Anton truly believes - it's no coincidence that he looks especially nervous at the end for the first time as he's going to leave the scene of the crash and it's not the police cars that he's worried about...

Miller's Crossing is probably the next recommended step in this Coen Brothers' journey, excellent movie and one of those ones that for some reason performed poorly back in the back but is now rightly recognized as the great movie it is.

I don't know if you take requests off of KZfaq, but I'd love to see you react to "Hell Or High Water." It's another amazing film set in Texas.

This movie is a GEM!! It also seems to get better each time you watch it! At least for me it did! 🤘🏽💪🏽

My headcannon of Chigurr strangling the cop while looking mad is probably because the cop got the drop on him while he was driving and didn't have access to his guns hidden in his trunk (out of reach) & couldn't make a grab for the steer gun without getting shot, so the first time we see him not in control is that he is furious with himself and took it out on the cop, and the only other time when he isn't in control of a situation is when he is hit by the car, he was abiding by his rules (green light meant he had the right away) and was struck for sticking to it, his rule that others follow the rules so he can better keep control (It is revealed the dead driver was high on the drug that the cartel was dealing, so it came full circle :0

A few others are … “True Grit”, “Raising Arizona”, “Millers Crossing”, Burn after Reading”…. 😎

This channel has become one of my favourite channels in KZfaq. Thank you very much to both of you, you seem very nice people. Waiting for new awesome reaction videos 😊

The way he killed Carla Jean at the end was really fucked up. That shit stuck with me after watching this film till this day. Its the one thing i remember most from this film. He murdered an grieving innocent woman for no reason other than to abide by his sick twisted code. Probably the coldest character ever put on film.

That unexpected T-bone MVC at the intersection is one of the two best "jump scares" in all of the movies I have seen. It still startles me many watches later, KNOWING IT IS COMING.

This movie changed my perception of what movies can be, and really got me interested in film language.

the movie was truly about the tommy lee jones character...the rest is just an experience that moves that character...unbelievable film.

Javier Bourdem at his best, he was also great in Skyfall.

Some believe that when Tommy Lee's character went back to the motel and was outside, and that Anton being behind the door was just in head.

The wife (Kelly MacDonald) is a Scottish actress who played Diane in Trainspotting.