Boring and Repulsive

Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2008)

I really hated "No Country for Old Men."
I had put off seeing it because it didn't look like it was going to be very good, but I was eventually taken in by all the rave reviews and the high rating on IMDb. Not only was it not very good, it was much worse than my worst expectations.
I had expected a lot of brutal violence and it delivered on that point. What I hadn't expected was that it was going to be so mindlessly boring.
There is only a minimal plot. The characters are all one-dimensional and nobody is likable. There are multiple plot holes, some which defy all logic. And I don't understand how anybody could be happy with the ending, which does not resolve anything that happened before it.
I don't always agree with film critics or popular taste in movies but "No Country for Old Men" sets a new standard. If I hadn't seen the horrible Lindsey Lohan movie, "I Know Who Killed Me," this would have been the worst movie I had seen all year.