AWESOME until the last act...SPOILERS ALERT!!!!

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2008)

SPOILERS ALERT! Read no further if you haven't seen the film!!!
I am getting tired of seeing nothing by 10 star ratings for this film. Was nobody else as disappointed as I was by the ending? The story was brilliant from the opening until the point where Woody Harrelson visits Josh Brolin in the hospital. This is where the story just sort of trickles out and...stops. We never get the showdown that we so badly want to see between Brolin and Bardem.
Some of the scenes in this film were terrifying, true edge of your seat suspense. This movie starts off so well and keeps delivering genuine thrill after genuine thrill, but after abruptly killing off the hero and then trickling away into nothingness, I felt cheated, disappointed, and stupid for having sat through the entire film. The Coens failed to tie it up whatsoever. Instead they tried some stupid film school/David Lynch BS, and the movie suffers as a result. The book may have been disjointed and open-ended, but this is a movie and should have been better adapted for the screen.
If Jaws the movie had been given the same ending as Jaws the book, it would have been a monstrosity of an ending, and that is just what the Coens have produced here...