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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Tyler
Cormac McCarthy's novels have made fantastic films in the past. His first attempt at a screenplay however is a very mixed bag and Ridley Scott is an odd match for the material. It feels like he doesn't know what to do with the script so he's just shot what's there, which is a bunch of terrible people sprouting elegant but highly uncharacteristic prose.
The overall structure is almost identical to No Country For Old Men but it has none of the grace or empathy of the Coen's masterful direction. Tommy Lee Jones delivers our central theme and leaves a lasting effect. Here, the central message is much darker and our surrogate for it is a cast-against-type Cameron Diaz doing a very big performance. I think so much of what you'll think about the film will rest on what you make of her. I didn't really go for it.
The film is cold and detached and pretty grim from start to finish. Well shot, as you'd expect, but the great cast struggle to make these characters sound like real people and it's ultimately an unfulfilling experience.
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