The best movie with the worse ending I've ever seen

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2008)

Did you like the way the "Sopranos" ended? If not, you'll be as equally disappopinted in how this much anticipated film ended, in very much the same way the final episode of the Sopranos ended. Only the last two minutes of this otherwise very fine and well-crafted movie disappointed, but for that very reason, and that reason alone, would have to disagree with the Academy Award that it received for best picture.
Javier Bardem is nothing short of "The Terminator," in his cold-blooded, relentless, almost machine like pursuit of the money, but he portrays a character that is more about blatant evil that is about the money. The money is secondary to his basic, driven, and enternal need to kill. He is frightening and horrific as a villain.
Tommy Lee Jones could have easily shared the "Best Support Actor" Academy Award with Bardem, particularly if his character had been better expanded at the very end of the film, which again, I found terribly disappointing.
Josh Brolin, too, deserves Oscar mentioning, but didn't get it, nor did we, at the end of the movie, find out what happens with his character, another big disappointment I had with the movie.
Not having seen the movie when it was first released, while anxiously awaiting its release on DVD, I had perhaps too high of expectations when finally viewing the movie at home. For me, it was the best movie I've ever seen, with the worse possible ending, taking this movie down perhaps two notches. Still, YOU'VE GOT TO SEE IT.