When this story ended, I started thinking I had missed a scene.

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2008)

The action and drama is fantastic, credible and non-stop.
The story ends......and you are partly blown away, partly convinced, but not left satisfied with what totally has unfolded, you are still left wondering, reviewing the pieces, what happened to this, how did, who did.... to a large degree you could make up your own ending to this movie....the director is playing tricks I think, he indirectly asks you to finish this movie's story - anyway you feel, or the way various pieces of evidence have been adjudicated by you (as his viewer) I have a complete different theory about this 'correct' ending, to any other I that I have read here: don't read this if you haven't yet seen the movie....SPOILER.....
I think there was a conspiracy between the Sheriff and Chigurh; just think about the little pieces of evidence...Sheriff Bell is told by Carla Jean that she is meeting Moss in El Paso; (my idea is that Bell tells Chigurh) later, after the Mexicans kill Moss, Chiguru shows up to get the money out of the vent, Sheriff Bell is sitting on the bed; he knows that the crime scene flat has been entered by Chiguru,he's come there to meet and share the loot.
Sheriff Bell retires almost straight away....then goes to visit his Old Uncle(ex-cop) Ellis, who poignantly tells Bell......" we have to continue with our lives no matter how evil life gets." (I took this as a code between the two, he was telling him to get on with his life and forget the deception (evil) he had done).
Chiguru, despite having the (best part) of 2 million, (obviously) executes Carla Jean...and why? Because she is the one who told Sheriff Bell to meet her and Moss in El Paso; Bell was the one she told, and this could have then provided evidence of a police leak, that is, that Bell had told Chiguru to get to El Paso quickly. Just my opinion.