Utterly Ambiguous 6.8/10, I expected more.

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2008)

I might be on a very small group of people by saying this, but I am proud to have this point of view rather than get carried away by all the hype, the excellent reviews and even the Oscars.
No Country for Old Men introduces with a soon to be retired officer (Tommy Lee Jones) who definitely thinks this world is becoming too violent for him to keep his work. Then Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) a Vietnam veteran who accidentally finds two million dollars near a car wreck in the desert. Llewelyn stays with the money not being able to calculate the deadly consequencesÂ… Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) a serial killer, psychopath who is in search for the money.
The film presents us non realistic dialogs, lots of gaps in the plot, random and unexplained relationships which lead to the loss of focus on the main subject(for example the relationship between Carson Wells and Anton Chigurh, couldn't find in it any point at all). The characters are hard to relate to, therefore hard to appreciate, even though all the actors gave extraordinary performances (Javier Bardem does give a sincere portrait of a psychopath). Sadly for me it wasn't enough with the good performances, I never could fully grasp the point of the film. At the end it's like the viewer is playing connect the dots, and all of the dots don't form any shape at all, it's an inconclusive ending that leaves too much to the viewer's imagination.
All of these reasons lead me to conclude that its sense of greatness is overrated.