Great performances and tense scenes, but the ending angered me.

Rating: 9/10 (26 February 2011)

I first saw this movie on DVD about two weeks after it came out, and I didn't really know what to expect because I didn't know what it was about. But the first three quarters of the movie was so intense and thrilling that I thought It was going to be a masterpiece... but then the ending came and left me confused and wondering what message the film was trying put across.
The main character, Moss(Brolin), ended up getting killed by Mexicans off screen, and I couldn't believe that the Coen Brothers would kill off the main character for no reason and leave the audience wondering what happened.
All in all the movie does have a lot of brilliant writing and great acting(especially from Javier Bardem), but the ending really could've been changed.