True Grit

I've been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite some time now. I really love the Coen brothers and Jeff Bridges and together is just golden. It's a fairly typical western story (...I would think. Although, I don't pretend to be an expert on westerns by any means). A young girl, Mattie, wants to have revenge and kill the man who killed her father. She hires the most fierce marshal, Cogburn, played by Jeff Bridges, who is known for having "true grit".
She is an amazingly intelligent and well spoken girl who fights for the right to ride with Cogburn, and occasionally some company, to catch and kill the man who killed her father.
In my opinion the film did well with how much action and guns etc they had. I would imagine it would be extremely easy to over do it with thr violence in a western like this...
The humour was always fantastic, the majority of it coming from Jeff Bridges.
Something that I'm noticing with many Coen films is the lack of music, and they continued the trend with this one. They really make it work...I'm not sure if many other filming styles could support a lack of music as well as theirs does.
One negative that I am just remembering now is probably the length of the film. It was an hour and fifty minutes long, which seems like a perfectly respectable length of time for a movie, but this one I felt required a minimum of fifteen minutes more...ideally, probably a good half hour. I felt like things were a bit rushed and a bit choppy, and I wish we could have also spent a bit more time getting to know the characters of the marshal and the girl. I wanted to feel for them more, and that would have made the film even more effective than it was.
Another negative for me was too much Matt Damon and not enough Josh Brolin. I really don't like Matt Damon and I thought his acting was below average and his character quite underdeveloped and lifeless. Brolin on the other hand, I quite like and wished to see more of...he wasn't given enough time...not enough time to be able to develop into anything more than a minor character. I wish he was given that chance.
One final note...regarding the final notes of the movie.
It didn't end fantastically. It was a respectable ending but nothing special.
And then the song playing for the credits just totally killed the mood.
Forgetting that, it was a great film, and I look forward to more from the Coen brothers, Jeff Bridges, and hopefully Josh Brolin in the future.

7.7/10