8.3 stars... really?

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2010)

This movie is riddled with plot holes. So much is left unexplained and so many things are unrealistic.
**Spoilers*** Movie starts with Chigurh being arrested. It's never explained why he's arrested, but he kills the officer that arrested him. My guess is they just wanted a "cool" murder scene to the start movie.
Llewelyn stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong. There's dead Mexicans everywhere, a truckload of drugs and a missing briefcase with millions of dollars in it. One Mexican is still alive, but he's dying from his gunshot wound. Llewelyn tracks down the missing briefcase and goes home... and then for some reason he decides to return to the crime scene to give water to the dying Mexican (wouldn't he be dead by now anyway?). You'd think Llewelyn would know someone would be missing a truckload of drugs and millions in cash... but no, he pulls up to the crime scene in his truck with his headlights on in the middle of the night. Very discreet...
Later Chigurh visits the crime scene with two other gentlemen. How does he know about the drug deal? what's his involvement in it? who is he with? How does Chigurh know Llewelyn is going to Del Rio? the transmitter wasn't giving any signals until he drove into Del Rio so he couldn't have known if he was driving in the right direction up until that point.
In the middle of this mess comes our new character Carson Wells. Hired by someone in an office. We don't find out who he is... in the credits he's named "man who hires Wells".
Carson somehow finds Llewelyn across the Mexican border in a hospital. It's not explained how he finds him.
Carson finds the briefcase with the money. Does he take it? nope, he returns to his hotel instead and gets killed by Chigurh.
Llewelyn is then killed off-screen and so is his wife. Towards the end of the movie sheriff Tom Bell chats with a fat guy in a diner and then an older man in a wheelchair. Not much is known about these characters.
Add to this the fact that Chigurh can go around killing people seemingly at will without much response from any law enforcement agency. You'd think there would be police controls, road blocks and a huge manhunt for a man who has just murdered a police officer and several other people. Not to mention the big oxygen tank that Chigurh is carrying with him everywhere. The officer at the start of the movie even describes the oxygen tank to another officer over the phone. Shouldn't be that difficult for the police to spot Chigurh.
This movie does not deserve 8.3 stars.