Super (awesomely!) violent and sometimes gross. It’s from a McCarthy book so you should know that going in / shouldn’t come as a shock.

Super freakily (psychologically) messed up villain (Javier Bardem. Spooky as shit. Crazy entrancing eyes).

Great performance from Tommy Lee Jones and solid from Josh Brolin (and I’m not even a fan of his!) and it’s fun to see LOTS of random actors popping up in bit parts (the coach from “One Tree Hill”, the nasty lady who ran the grocery store on “Jericho”, Woody Harrelson (what a relief to see him in something good again after that other shitehole movie which I actually think was way worse than I seem to have written there), Garrett Dillahunt who just played a Russian mobster on “Life”)…

I have to say: what made this movie for me was pure Coen brothers; you can tell/feel where they inserted themselves into this script: the small-town, down-home country humor and the warm personal relationships and comfortable feeling between many of the characters (despite the nasty killings and brutal stuff). And believe you me, humor and warmth = those are NOT things you will find in a McCarthy book.

Really excellent filmmaking and I (given my extreme dislike of McCarthy’s writing) wasn’t even really sure I wanted to see this…