Great movie with a few flaws.

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2008)

This movie had me hooked from the beginning. The acting was top notch and the story was written to perfection until the very end, and a few flaws during the half way point of the movie. First of all, especially in Texas, if you kill a cop, your face will be plastered everywhere and they will hunt you down. In this movie, we have this psycho just driving around with no cares, getting into shootouts in a motel room and then in the street and NO ONE cares to call the cops? I mean, this psycho shoots three people in a motel room and then just sits down and relaxes without any notion that "maybe I should leave the scene"? Where are the cops in this town? Also, the ending did not tie anything together, Tommy Lee Jones, who is a sheriff looking for this psycho, talks and talks about a dream he had and then all of sudden the movie just ends. Okay, so, what was the point of having Tommy Lee Jones character in the movie? I would have given this a ten, but those few things I pointed out prevented me from doing that. I still give this a 9 because of the great performances, story(for the most part), and the shootout sequences. All that was done exceptionally well, but it just needed a stronger ending.