No Country For Old Men (2007)

This 2007 crime thriller by the Coen brothers won four academy awards, including Best Picture. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and includes Woody Harrelson as well. It's a modern day western of sorts, set in Texas. But it is anything but the traditional type of western.

The film explores issue of free-will and fate as well as the essence of good and evil. Some of the characters are complex, behaving morally one moment and less so the next. Tommy Lee Jones plays small town sheriff Ed Tom Bell whose narration begins the film and whose conversation with his wife at the end about his dreams closes the film. The rest of the film concerns the interplay between the three stars as interested parties seek to recover $2 million in cash from a drug deal gone wrong.

If you only like the traditional kind of western where the good guys wear a white hat and always win, then you won't like this film. But if you enjoy a complex film that touches on the emotions and feelings of people trapped in circumstances that are sometimes of their own making and sometimes random and beyond their control, then you should enjoy this. The acting is top notch.

You can read about the film here: Wikipedia Article