Plot Hole

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2012)

I really thought this movie was not the worse one I have ever seen. I'd even say it was well made and was pretty intense at times. I do have several issues with many plot points in this movie.
First major plot hole, in the first two scenes it starts off with the sheriff talking about how he doesn't want to meet someone like Anton. Then it cuts to the retarded cop that arrests Anton, no explanation is ever given as to why he is being arrested just that Anton is being arrested. I called the cop retarded because after he hauls Anton to the jail he somehow left him in a chair a few feet right behind himself and he's the only cop in the place. Anton is 3 times bigger than him and the cop didn't even cuff Anton's hands behind his back. Of course, the insane evil person that Anton is he immediately kills the tiny officer as soon as he hangs up the phone. Major plot hole... Very sloppy writing in my opinion. Only an idiot would find that situation believable. Cops aren't that stupid and they would be 10 times more cautious of the situation in a small town with very little staff.
Anyways, to the next unbelievable situation in this "Best Movie of the Year."
Llewelyn Moss happens to be out hunting some animals. I feel they did a great job on the cinematography on these scenes. But here we go back to the illogical screen writing again. As you watch Llewelyn's character in these scenes you can tell he's somewhat of a smart guy, you do not pick up hunting, scouting and tracking traits/skills and still remain a complete retard.
Llewelyn takes a shot at one of his animal targets but only wounds it, scaring it and the rest of the herd off. So he walks closer towards where hit believes he hit his target trying to find a blood trail to start tracking his prey but finds a different blood trail leading in a different direction. He pulls out his binoculars and sees a dog limping off in a different direction. Llewelyn decides to track where the dog's blood trail originated from and finds a drug deal gone wrong.
It's obvious there are dead bodies, blood and shot up vehicles all over this scene of carnage. Llewelyn searches through the mess and finds a Mexican man in one of the vehicles still barely alive. The man is asking for water but Llewelyn is only interested in finding the last man standing and explains that he does not have any water to the man. Llewelyn continues to scout out the place and finds the last man, or at least a dead man that has a bag filled with a ton of money.
Llewelyn finds the bag with all that cash in it. In real life, if someone found the money and they had already made a conscious decision they were going to take the money they could care less if they found some guy who is half dead and thirsty for some water at the scene. Llewelyn wouldn't come back to give that guy some water.
But nevertheless for the sake of having some kind of storyline this plot hole from hell prevails. Llewelyn takes water back to the most likely dead man at this point and sure enough, there are some mean druggy guys at the drug scene now. The druggy folks try to shoot up Llewelyn, he luckily escapes on foot to a nearby river which was not apparent at all in the first few scenes of the area but somehow there is a large river at this point. Anyways, Llewelyn makes it down the river a bit shoots a pursuing dog and escapes.
Llewelyn can not be as smart as he is in the first few scenes and as stupid as he becomes later as the movie progresses. He's made it back home after these crazy events and is determined to finally get the hell out of dodge but hasn't even looked in the bag of money to check it out yet. Not even to just count how much it is. Any normal person would have counted it the very first time they were alone with the money but nope Llewelyn is the dumbest yet a very smart person. So he has no idea that there is a tracking beacon device in the bag.
Anton somehow gets the tracking thing to find the bag and he hunts down Llewelyn for the rest of the movie. The story continues on and more plot holes keep emerging as the script continues to fall further into ruin.
Zodiac (2007) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Gone Baby Gone (2007) There Will Be Blood (2007) Michael Clayton (2007) Into the Wild (2007) Ratatouille (2007) Shooter (2007) American Gangster (2007) Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
I'm sure there are some that I missed but just the movies I listed here are so much more deserving of the Best Picture Oscar in 2007 it's amazing. I can't believe No Country for old Men got Best Picture, this movie has so many plot holes and failures I can't fathom what the Acadamy board was thinking when this came out as the best picture. They must've smoked a big fatty right before they started the reels to this one. Because what I saw was a huge waste of film as it comes to a good, logical screenplay. Perhaps if you make two good films that just hit the spot you can end up writing crap for the rest of your career and people will lap it up as if they were dogs that have been stranded in the high desert for the last 2 weeks. Because the Cohen Brothers did not make anything special here, unless excrement is now the most amazing thing in the world.