Seriously. This movie is shit. Warning: spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen this movie and you want to (even though I'm telling you it's shit), don't continue reading. Horrible things about this movie:
1) Nothing makes sense. You know that feeling of watching an awesome movie where everything seems kind of unrelated, but it all comes together at the end? Yeah, this is like that minus the awesome and the coming together at the end thing.
2) Everyone good dies. No kidding. The main character, his wife, the good guy that's looking for the bad guy, miscellaneous peripheral characters that are totally innocent bystanders-all dead by the end.
3) The bad guy (Javier Bardem) is frightening. Seriously, his facial expressions are like something out of a nightmare. I'm sure it's all good acting, but still...scary.
4) The bad guy doesn't even get caught. Or killed. Or anything. He just disappears into the ether or something.
5) The movie ends VERY abruptly. No resolution. No summing up. Just a rambling monologue by Tommy Lee Jones about a dream that he had and then BAM. Roll credits. WTF? Seriously, WTF?!
How could anyone have given this movie a good review? How did anyone like it? Justin and I were honestly pissed when it ended. When the last scene played and the credits started rolling, we both just looked at each other in this stunned/angry way and said "WHAT?!". Still, though. If Justin would have just listened to me and gotten There Will Be Blood instead, we wouldn't have had to sit through that travesty.
