I happen to think that its one of the finer pieces of film that has been made in a long time. The Cohen borthers have pulled off one of the tougher feats in adaptive work: the film was better than the novel.
When you read the book it seems like there is a lot of dead space there, things that are left out rather than appearing economical like I believe Cormac McCarthy attempted to have it. Under the Cohen's direction the space leaves quite a bit with Javier (sp?) and the scenes around him working together to create a more power image of the phantom figure and a more haunting and depleted new world for what the "old men" would have to endure.
Everything about the film was nothing short of amazing so I'll skip the obvious points and address what might have been missed.
The shots in this films are relativly standard but every once in awhile they come at an angle that is so much a part of the storyline, and still so novel that you wonder when more films don't pay attention to this one device. The angle of the camera san say so much about what its shooting, or what its not shooting and theres a scene in the hotel where Javier (I should learn his name) and Woody are talking about god knows what and right before the action scene they have a shot thats looking down at an angle and removed about 20 ft. back bringing it out of the scene really. Seeing if from that far away...you have to see it.
The other thing I loved is the reason for Javier (sorry) using the device that he does, I mean you watch this film and you think, "these guys didn't miss a damn thing."
I clearly loved the damn thing.
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