In a hot June day in West Texas in 1980, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is reflecting on the increasingly violent climate that is rising in his county. A deputy pulls over Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) that is wanted for a variety of crimes. Back at the station the deputy makes a fatal mistake of turning his back to him and is viciously strangled to death. Chigurh steals a police car and pulls over a random driver and quickly murders him with one shot to the forehead with a cattle gun. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is spending the afternoon near the Rio Grande hunting to bring venison to the table. In the search to find the deer he has shot, he comes across a heroin deal gone horribly wrong. After finding only one surviving Mexican in the massacre, who begs for water, he comes across one of the drug dealers dead a mile out under a shady tree with a satchel piled high with two million dollars in cash. That night with his conscience not allowing him to sleep, Llewelyn leaves his wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) to return to the scene of the crime to bring water to the dying man. He is too late and as he tries to leave, a JEEP arrives at his truck and is soon in hot pursuit of Llewelyn. After barely escaping with his life, Llewelyn finds himself with no car, shotgun pellets in his shoulder and with out boots. Chigurh soon arrives his a pair of well-dressed drug dealers, retrieves Llewelyn’s truck's registration plate, the hidden transponder that is in the money satchel and kills the two other men. Llewelyn knowing it is only a matter of time before the bad guys come knocking on his door, insists that his wife stay with her mother in Odessa, Texas.

So begins the chase between Chigurh and Llewelyn, as Llewelyn runs across borders with the money to seek safety. No Country for Old Men is a thrilling crime film that is full of all the familiar themes and characters you have expected through the years from a Coen film. The big surprise is No Country for Old Men stays very faithful to the novel. Now available in a special edition, the film is finally presented with some great bonus material.

First up is a digital copy of the film for your mp3 player so you can watch the film where ever you go. There is an almost thirty minute “The Making of No Country for Old Men” feature on the whole process in bring this to the big screen. “Working With the Coens” is a sixty minute interview with the two brothers and the other behind the scene players conducted by none other then director Spike Jonze. “Diary of a Country Sheriff” examines the difference and drives between Sheriff Bell and the evil of Anton Chigurgh. In the Press Timeline option there are a a series of interviews including some from The Charlie Rose Show, a WGA panel and a Q&A from Variety. Rounding out the bonus material is a almost ten minute feature with actor Josh Brolin entitled “Josh Brolin’s UnAuthorized Behind-The Scenes.”

No Country for Old Men is film poetry that was on every critics Top Ten list of 2008. This is a film that will surprise you, intrigue you and surely keep you glued to screen until the credits roll.

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