Grim Reaper Meets Coen Bros

When I saw the trailers for No Country For Old Men, a film adaptation by the Coen brothers of the novel by Cormac McCarthy, I thought it'd be a film about a serial killer set in a present day spaghetti western. Javier Bardem portrays Anton Chigurh, a ruthless serial killer who did not beg, but certainly borrowed, stole, and mutilated everyone in his path. His method is to simply kill on the spot or flip a coin and coerce his victims to choose heads or tails, as if their fate led him that much closer to his treasure; a black bag holding a million dollars in drug money. Corruption is rampant, connecting border patrol and police, Mexican coyotes, and all the ones caught in between. Tommy Lee Jones plays Ed Tom Bell, a seasoned county police chief who is condemned to end his career, haunted by a sociopathic killer who will always be on his trail. Anton Chigurh seems to appear out of nowhere, as if he is a ghost or, as he would like to be considered; a grim reaper who decides when and how his victims die.