Great cinematography but major plot hole.

Rating: 1/10 (30 April 2013)

I just saw this movie again the 3rd time. I saw it a few times right after it was released in 2007. I have to say I must have been really tired or just missed the first 20 minutes of the movie both of those times because there is a huge plot hole right at the beginning. Again, I must have missed it and now I have to rate this movie down big time. I used to think this was an excellent film but I must have slept through or just missed the key parts that really makes this movie suck.
To be fair there are plot holes through out the whole movie. But the one at the beginning of the movie is so big that the remainder of the movie never would have happened if it were a real life situation.
I still think the cinematography in this film is great and Tommy Lee Jones narration and character are good but he's still the worst sheriff in all of Texas. There is no way you can make me believe that the hick Josh Brolin's character at the beginning who is smart enough to know how to hunt stealthily is going to be stupid enough to take that thirsty Mexican some water in the middle of the night after taking that bag of money from that drug scene gone wrong, dead bodies all over and guns all over the ground, NO ONE on GOD's Earth is that stupid and has as good of wits as Brolin's character portrays, doesn't happen!
I honestly don't know how I missed that part of the movie the first 2 times, I must have been on a hot date and was more concerned about her than the movie. I noticed Javier Bardem's character is tracking Brolin with some kind of device but the hick dude would have checked what was in the bag as soon as he got it to a safe place, even if he thought the bag didn't have some kind of tracking device he would have checked the bag just to see how much money there was and would have found it accidentally. Maybe I assume too much here, but I don't know one white collar or blue collar man who wouldn't count the cash as soon as they were in a safe place with it, do you? To me the entire previous part of the movie is a plot hole, literally thrown into the script to create the story.
In real life Brolin's character would have discovered the tracking device thing once he got back to his trailer while counting the loot then he would have taken the tracking device thing to some dumpster in the nearest large city and thrown it away. Went back and grabbed his woman and moved to a nice remote location of their choice.
Plus, I couldn't help but notice that no where in any part of the movie does it ever explain why Javier Bardem's character ever even starts after Josh Brolin's character? How does he even get the tracking thing?? The only part that could possibly lead the audience to this assumption is when Brolin is for no reason whatsoever bringing the Mexican some water in the middle of the night and then the group that comes after him. They might have some how unbeknownst to the audience tipped off Barbem.!?!... The only thing it ever lets the audience know is that Javier Bardem's character is basically like the grim reaper and likes to kill people. The audience is just supposed to assume he knows Josh Brolin's character has the loot and that Bardem some how got a tracking device that is tracking this phantom bag of 2 million dollars. That whole section of the movie makes no sense at all because there's no explanation as to how he knows these things.
The whole movie pretty much is a major plot hole! Now that I re-watched the whole thing I don't see how this won best picture, but then again most of Hollywood has been stinking it up lately, even though this came out 6 years ago. Still sucks! This movie is way, way, way superbly over rated!