Not Deserving of the Academy Award

Rating: 6/10 (13 March 2008)

Don't get me wrong, this was a good movie but it certainly wasn't a great movie. Of the best picture nominees this year, I have seen 2: Juno and No Country For Old Men. Of these two Juno was the much superior film. Like most Coen Brother movies (IMHO) this one fails to live up hype. As for the movie itself, it's starts out promising: A drug deal gone wrong, a local finding the money, and a psychopath chasing after him to recover it. Throw in a veteran sheriff on the trail of both and you got yourself a good storyline for a chase movie. But as the movie progresses, there is little character development. I never felt I really got to know or understand any of the characters. You have three main characters with no real on screen interaction, and then the movie just seems to end. You don't even get to see when the main character is murdered by another random group of people hunting him. The bad guy is never caught, just walks away from and accident. And the sheriff just retires.