The genre elements would be strong even without the character of Chigurh, a psychopathic killer on the trail of the passer-by, who seems to owe something to a number of iconic film roles. This could be a gangster film played out in the locations of a western. Drug-dealers have been killing each other and a satchel of money has gone missing, picked up by a passer-by who just couldn't resist it. Unsolved murders are a rarity on Bell's patch of the American south west and now he has a handful. No Country For Old Men alternates the reflections of Sheriff Bell, known to everyone as Ed Tom, with the narrative of a highly unusual case. The castrating terror of that label doesn't seem to go away. McCarthy's lean, man's-manly style achieves exquisite effects, but don't go calling him an artist if you know what's good for you.
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