There will be spoilers in this review.

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2008)

My rating of 7 is only a good movie in my scoring system & in this film, the cinematography, art direction settings & costume are excellent. I cant put music down as there is next to no score. The editing is very good as well.
What is missing then, there is no story,what we have here is a 2 hour synopsis, There is no character development for any of the myriad persons..
I am glad it was closed captioned as they all spoke so softly, you could barley here the sparse dialog.
Javier Bardem deserved his nomination, BUT I just don't think he deserved an Oscar for it. In fact the film deserved none of the Oscars it won.
Normally I hate to give out spoilers, here are thye main ones.
Bardem is the killer as we all know, BUT he walks away wounded but alive at the ending. Tommy Lee Jones is the only other major cast member left alive.
I saw this as a rental from NETFLIX, (my average cost per film is about one dollar.
In other words, dear reader, the film is worth a cheap rental fee ONLY.
This is not the worst Coen Brother movie,It is however very disappointing. From all the great reviews I read I expected a much better movie.
Ratings: *** (out of 4) 82 points(out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)