Hollywood is bereft of ideas

Rating: 2/10 (18 June 2019)

This is nothing but violence porn, smeared over with some philosophical mumbo-jumbo to make it appear more meaningful to pretentious eggheads and Coen Bro fans.
Bardem plays a one-note amoral psycho who kills people for no apparent reason. Barbara Streisand's step-son plays a village idiot who finds money he didn't earn.
Tommy Lee Jones plays a philosophy major. Good thing he's so deep because he couldn't solve a crime to save a life.
Woody shows up to inject some levity into things and Stephen Root knocks it out of the park as usual.
But it doesn't amount to anything. The final scene was surely an outtake meant to appear earlier in the narrative. It gets tacked back on to the end of the movie to give the preceding two gruelling hours an arc it doesn't deserve.