Easy To Like Difficult To Understand

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2008)

This movie will grab your attention immediately and will keep you, not only interested, but on the edge of your seat for the entire movie. It is a true action-thriller. It has a villain so incredibly evil that you are never able to look away. He has an internal honor code that he adheres to, but with no moral or ethical basis. The characters Llewelyn (Josh Brolin), Carson (Woody Harrelson), and a corporate executive with ties to drugs (Steven Root), who believe that they are capable of challenging him, find out, to their misfortune, that no one is. He kills without hesitation or remorse and even kills a truly innocent person simply because he had promised he would.
But this story is really about Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). It begins with him and ends with him. He is an aging west Texas sheriff who has realized that he has lost his edge as an lawman. He is unable, no matter how much he wants or tries, to save anyone. He has the wisdom, but no longer the ability to be effective.
Some people will find the end disappointing or call it a non-ending. It ended perfectly!