Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (5 August 2018)

Overrated. The ridiculous characters that the Cohen Brothers create are fun to watch, no doubt. There is also something to be said about the amount of action set pieces that you can watch non-stop, without any kind of dialogue or character development. The filmmakers are amazing at visually tell the story, but it gets boring. One guy going after the other for 1 hour straight is too much.
So, lets talk about the characters. Like I said, all fun to watch, but...
Our "hero": purposely made less likeable than typically. The movies asks you the question: "would you like this guy?" And that was awesome. But after, they make him dumb so the movie can start with the action and persecutions. He goes back to the place where he stole the money because he was guilty about letting a guy die without giving him water. This is insanely stupid and took me out of the movie. Why they would make him like this? Either make him a guy with grey morals towards "good" or good. This guilt induced stupidity seemed out of character and just needed for the plot.
Then you have Chigurh. In the end, we can't really know if he was a myth or not. He might be as terminator as he looked it was, or maybe what we see is not really what it happened. There's no way to know. He was a monster impossible to destroy and more a charicature representing nihilism than anything else.
Finally, Tommy Lee Jones absolutely being old very well. You know, because he's old? Im tired already.
The movie gets boring, but is still good because it presents some ideas not as often touched on Hollywood, and making fun characters to watch when they stop a bit with the action set pieces. The movie works, but its far from a masterpiece.