Can't believe this won Best Picture

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2009)

OK, the actors were excellent, especially the leads, and including Woody Harrelson in a supporting role. But in general, I found this movie to be a stinker. It takes a while to get started, picks up in the middle, only because there was a little action to go along with a dragging storyline, and the film's ending may have been intended as a metaphor, but it was just as bad as the movie overall.
Some of the scenes seem like important parts ended up on the cutting room floor, or perhaps the entire scenes should have! The whole concept of dragging around a suitcase of money, which happens to have a transponder in it, as opposed to dumping it in a duffel bag or something so you would be less conspicuous to the person searching for the case was a bit silly. As was the motel scene of going to the trouble to hide the case in an HVAC vent only to pull it out through another vent - what was the point of that? What did it achieve or help him elude.
I cannot believe someone actually put their name to this movie.