Unfortunately, this can't be watched a second time...

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2014)

...because then the whole movie is tainted at the outset by its (first) gaping plot hole being exposed and an obvious question being raised... namely, what the hell is such an unstoppable character doing in the handcuffed custody of such incompetent local authorities? Don't tell me he's deliberately submitting himself to handcuffs in order to track down missing money which he either suspects the police of hiding or needs their information to find. That's almost as lame as expecting a movie-going audience to sympathize with a protagonist who's stupid enough to return to the crime scene AND leave a mile-wide trail back to his wife, or as preposterous as a bloody killing spree taking place all across Texas with only one law enforcement officer showing any interest. Oh, wait... I gave it five out of ten because the trademark Coen flair was in evidence, and because watching the first time around was surface-level exciting enough to excuse the weak ending, the ludicrous inserting of dead-end characters such as Woody Harrelson's, and the clichéd targeting of hillbilly caricatures as gratuitous victims. Almost as over-rated as Inglorious Basterds.