Good Movie, but Overrated

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2008)

While hunting in the desert Lleweln Moss (Brolin) comes across dead bodies in an apparent drug deal gone bad. The money is still there and he takes it and now has to run for his life because the big drug boys want their money back.
This is a good movie, but not Oscar Worthy (it won Best Picture). What were they (Academy) thinking? Someone needs to take the politics out of the voting. Javier Bardem won for Best Supporting Actor. Okay, that's a coin toss at best. Anyone could have won, "but let's pick someone no one has ever heard of." Ooops, not exactly a coin toss, was it?
This is a good movie, but I wouldn't award it Best Screen Play (it won for that too). Hmmm.. how does that happen when there is more shooting going around than dialogue? The quality of the dialogue, ya think? Hmmmm.no.
This is a good movie and the story is told from the Sheriff's (Jones) perspective, hence the title. The problem I had was the movie time was mostly watching the running and killing. That took up most of the 2-hours. The Sheriff was an afterthought and came on the scene intermittently in a tired way. Maybe that was what he meant by being "overmatched" (his words) when it came to keeping up with the bad guys. But, since most of the movie was watching the running, hiding, shooting and killing I thought the title should have been reflected there for the most part.
This is a good movie, and, the title would have made more sense if the Sheriff's perspective was told after the fact, but here the story was told in the present. And, after the opening narrative by the Sheriff, the narration left us. See? And, the Sheriff's catharsis - in the present - at the end closes the loop? Hmmmmno.
This is a good movie and the performances of all were excellent. I would say there was parity among Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and yes, Woody Harrelson even though his part didn't last all that long.
This is a good movie and the pace was more than fine because I was kept on edge the whole time, and the scenes shifted often enough that nothing dragged.
This is a good movie, but in my opinion, not Oscar Worthy for Best Picture.
Violence: Yes; Sex: No; Nudity: No; Language: No