What story was this movie trying to tell again?

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 2007)

I didn't really know anything about this movie walking into it. At first, it started out slowly, though suspensefully, but began to pick up later on, only to finish its last one-third on another slow and ambiguous note.
One of the main problems with this movie is most of the characters' actions are unexplained, we know nothing about these characters and as such, have no reason to care for them. And because of this, I couldn't even begin to explain the story to myself and believe it for the life of me. And that's not even touching the often-bad dialogue. There is zero character development - these characters are all exactly the same in the beginning of the movie as they are at the end.
The first two-thirds of this movie were awesome - if it finished on that tone, I would be completely satisfied. But "No Country for Old Men" finishes on just as slow and boring of a note as it began on. I won't remember it a year from now.