Let's be fair.

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2014)

Alright, there's a lot to say. I'll be fair and I'm gonna keep every side of the argument.
-I enjoyed it, very actually, specially the first 70 mins; it was more thrilling and would keep you waiting for more of badass well-shot scenes with some neat twists... well, hopefully. -Javier Bardem has made a remarkable performance for life and nobody could deny it. -I didn't really think I would adapt with a movie that has no music, but I actually loved it thanks to the sound mixing and editing neat tricks and usage of daily life materials. -I have no problem with realistic storytelling and that it's not always about how the good defeats the evil. -Awesome directing and guiding techniques for the scenes.
Every screenplay has got two major jobs on its shoulder, it's the writer's burden to deliver a written-before-visualizing material (the scenes), AND what these scenes are about through them. I could give you hundreds of well-written powerful scenes, but you wouldn't really get what the whole thing is about. This movie would go with an A+ for the first half, but leaves you confused about the second one. Same goes to the direction. The directors, besides visualizing the screenplay, they gotta keep the plot on your mind, what keeps the engine going.
So.. Was it too deep or too pretentious?
Was it deep because of how realistic the story is? Aka how the guy you dislike harms innocent people or the people you like? Because of how psychotic, without any kind of sympathy Javier was? Because old men can't fight and spend their last days just some deep thinkers, dreams-interpreter philosophers? I honestly wasn't following Tommy Lee most of the time, he didn't seem that interesting to me. Because the writer of the screenplay was like "Alright, they ain't gonna get nothing about the whole story but what I want them to know"? Not even talking about hints.
As the Coens brothers, the writers of the screenplay are the directors in the same time, I think they got more busy with the techniques and visualizing the scenes more than elaborating and explaining more of the core of the work.
I did enjoy it, but I was left unfulfilled nor satisfied. And I don't usually go fully hard on a movie's flaws, I just try to give it what it deserves.