He plays a popular lad who gets in a bad accident and suffers short term memory loss, serious self-esteem issues and an inability to cope with every day life. His life fallen apart he manages to eke out a living as a janitor at a bank, but his lonely existence only has a blind Jeff Daniels as his friend. Then some friendly cool types come along and start hanging out with him and he gets a girlfriend and no longer needs Jeff Daniels and everything is peaches and gravy. Until they want him to do something for them. Until they want him to be a lookout.

Although when the guy who found the money died, I thought that was a bit rushed, would have liked to see a bit more of that

I think it was one of the great elements of the film, Llewellyn's off-screen death. The off-hand revelation of his demise was more shocking to me than them showing it, because it fully revealed the impassive, implaccable nature of death in the film. It was unemotional, a dark force that was rolling across the land. It was never really Llewellyn's story per se, it's a film where the shock and horror comes from there being no heroes, no story, no lessons, no morale... there's just death. And Tommy Lee Jones's Sherriff reflects our fear of it. Anton, once an implaccable force of death, reveals and becomes aware of his own mortality at the end of the film as for the first time he breaks a rule. True, he kills her anyway, but he allowed a small edge of compassion and that was death to the man - or creature - he was, even if it wasn't in body.

Which all would have worked for me if there then wasn't a ten minute scene where Tommy Lee Jones just stands there repeating "It's No Country For Old Men. It's No Country For Old Men" over and over and over again, whilst wearing a t-shirt saying "No Country For Old Men" and bludgeoning his family with a mallet, across which is written "It is No Country For Old Men. Do You Get It? Do You See? Look, Let Me Repeat It Again For You!"

I did find it mildly amusing that the "good" guy of the film, is actually the guy who created the virus that wiped out the human race! But that's ok, because he loves his monkey

death of Llewellyn

Tommy Lee Jones just waffles for ten minutes

the chappie dying off screen, though how he came to be there was wildly out of character for him. He spends so much time and effort trying to make his wife safe, and then basically cheats on her with the first woman he meets? Yeah, whatever.

Tommy Lee Jones just waffles on for ten minutes and screams "THIS IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN" again and again and again just has no redeeming quality for me. It's ridiculously heavy handed and just seems like the writer/director trying to get the point across for those who couldn't understand it from a) the title of the film, and b) what happened to all the characters