A hunter comes across a drug deal gone bad and takes off with the money. Unfortunatelty, the person who "owns" the money tracks him down.

Rating: 4/10 (20 April 2008)

We read the book, which was one of the best books we have ever read, and we read a lot, but knew right away that it would be a challenge to make a movie out of McCarthy's masterpiece since a lot of what is going on in the book is what a character is thinking. How to portray that on film? We give the Coen brothers props for trying, but overall, this was one of the most boring films we have ever watched, and it would have been more so if we had not already read the book; therefore, we knew what was going on (what a character was thinking during one of the many scenes without dialogue). Sure, there was some superb acting, especially Javier Bardem, as no one I think could have done creepy, but in not such a creepy way, as well as he did (think Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd.). Having seen only 1 of the other nominees (Juno, also over-rated but more entertaining at least), we cannot judge just how this movie compares to the other 3 that were nominated. We guess it was a judgement call, and this movie won.