No Country for Old Men (2007) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong graphic violence and some language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man sits on a toilet and his buttocks are seen
  • A husband and wife are talking on the couch as they watch television, and the man says, "keep running your mouth like that and i'll take you in the back and screw ya." He says it as a joke.
  • Almost no nudity in the entire movie. Only one scene where a man's buttocks are seen.
  • A man is nude in a bathtub, but only his upper body is visible because of his seating position and the camera angles used.

Violence & Gore

  • This movie contains some intense, highly frightening sequences of violence, in which there are implied deaths and injuries. However, all of this happens very fast but is still shocking. These scenes contain blood although rarely any obscene gore.
  • Near the beginning, a man is strangled by another man with handcuffs, resulting in the man's throat slitting and blood squirting.
  • A man is unexpectedly shot in the neck, with lots of blood splattering onto a window, and lots of blood pouring out of the wound, then in the head. Blood also splatters onto a man sitting next to him.
  • A violent crime scene is shown twice. Dead corpses are seen with blood all over them and flies swarming them, the interior of a truck has a dead body inside it with lots of blood on the seats. Two dead dogs are seen with bloody bullet wounds in them.
  • A man is shot in the chest with a shotgun while sitting in a chair, blood pools on the floor around him.
  • A man is shot in the face with a shot gun, we see the bloody bullet wounds in his face and we hear him choking to death on his own blood, we see a little bit of blood squirt out of his neck, it is implied that the perpetrator kills the witness.
  • A man begging for mercy is shot behind a shower curtain, we see blood spray onto the curtain from the killers perspective.
  • A man is killed on screen with a cattle gun, after this blood is seen pouring out of the wound
  • The main antagonist makes one of his victims call sides of a coin to determine if he will kill them or not. The antagonist is very Cold and remorseless through the Entire Film.
  • Arguably most graphic violent and gory movie from Coen brothers and for sure most intense.
  • A man is shot in the head with a pistol.
  • A man is seen dead from a gunshot to the head. There's blood on the wound as well as the broken glass the bullet exited through.
  • A man is shot in the shoulder. We later see him removing shrapnel from the wound.
  • A dog is shot with a pistol. The dog whimpers and falls down, dying offscreen.
  • Two men are shot with a pistol. One man is shot in the chest and the other is shot in the head. We can see both bloody bullet wounds.
  • A man's forearm is messily blown off with a shotgun, and dangles by a flap of skin. He then is shot with blood spraying.
  • A man is shot in the chest with a shotgun, and is thrown back by the blast, many bullet holes visible. The floor then pools with blood.
  • A desk clerk is shot offscreen. An empty chair where he was previously sitting is empty making it clear he is dead behind the desk he was sitting at.
  • A man is wounded in the leg with a shotgun. He later dresses his wounds, pulling the buck shot out of bloody holes in his leg.

Profanity

  • 3 uses of ass, 2 uses of "fuck", and 1 use each of "shit", son of a "bitch", "whores", "dick", and "riding bitch", along with 1 use of "screw" (sex). Also 6 uses of "hell", 3 uses of "Goddamn", 2 uses of "damn"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main theme of the film has to do with stolen drug money. In one scene you see many bags of heroin in the back of a truck.
  • Infrequent smoking and drinking.
  • In one scene a man is shown self medicating by injecting himself with morphine, though this is done to dull the pain of a gunshot wound.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Anton Chigurh is an utterly remorseless and unrelentingly evil mass murderer. He's an incredibly vicious and disturbing psychopath who takes lives simply for the sake of killing, and he follows a murderous and nihilistic moral code that revolves around the concept of fate and chance. The depiction of his ruthless sociopathy is extremely realistic and frightening, and every scene involving him is unfathomably scary and nerve-wracking.
  • The tone of this film is very dark and disturbing. The character Anton Chigurh will frighten viewers whenever he is on screen. Additionally, the movie has almost no soundtrack and it makes the film even more unsettling.
  • The violence in this film is also realistic and tends to occur suddenly. The lack of audible score adds to the uneasy and tense atmosphere throughout the more intense moments.
  • The goriest scene is towards the end where a man is shot we see blood quickly spray and then the scene cuts to later we see the man who was with him with his shirt with blood on it
  • Moderately disturbing, we see people shot with blood spray
  • A man is shown with blood on his shirt after being with a man who was shot
  • The movie centers around a nihilistic psychopath who kills almost everyone he encounters, deciding some of their fates with a coin toss as he pursues a disturbed Vietnam War veteran with a suitcase full of money coming from a drug deal gone awry. Every single encounter with this character is extremely intense, frightening and nerve-wracking.

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Violence & Gore

  • A main character is shot to death offscreen by drug dealers, lots of blood is seen on his shirt. A woman is found lying dead in a pool, with some blood in the water, and a man is seen crawling on the ground with a bloody shotgun wound on his rib.
  • It is suggested that a man kills a woman in her home. He is then seen checking his shoe for blood.
  • There is a very sudden and unexpected car crash. Anton is seen with bone sticking out from his arm and lots of blood. There is also some blood on his face and some cuts he received during the crash. A little bit of blood is also seen in his hair. Very intense.

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