how did this win any Oscars...

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2008)

so i watched this movie today, and i am completely confused as to how it won anything... furthermore, i am completely astonished that it even received any nominations. i think it should have been nominated for some raspberry awards including: worst closure, worst character development, worst continuity, worst writing... etc... we never find out who javir bardem is working for really, or why he is so messed up... tommy lee jones also has no character development, josh brolin we do find out was in the army but other than that not much... the time line for this movie is messed up... one minute brolin is dead, the next his mother-in-law is being buried... but we don't even know for sure that he is dead, the body on the floor didn't even look like him, and no one ever mentions it... one minute he is hitting on some girl by the pool, the next tommy lee jones takes his hat off and looks at brolin's wife... i guess when someone takes off their hat and looks at you that's code for "your husband is dead"? we never see him in the morgue either, well they don't open the bag anyway, and we don't see his funeral... so i was expecting him to be alive and well with the money some where, because they never really show any proof that the guys fleeing the hotel had it... and bardem never mentioned it when he went to brolin's house after... so... whose money was it? where did it end up? where did the drugs end up? why didn't bardem want the drugs, or even the money int he end? what's the deal with jones? why did bardem kill the guy that seemed to have hired him (and if he killed him why was he still looking for brolin and the money?)? why wasn't the FBI brought in on the original crime scene (any crime that involves parties crossing state lines, or international borders, is FBI jurisdiction... Jones knew some of the vehicles/men at the scene were from Mexico, and yet the FBI wasn't brought in)? how did the 3 men find brolin at the first hotel? why didn't he leave with his wife in the beginning? those are just a few of the unanswered questions that this movie leaves you with... just a terrible movie in general... i actually thought, during the closing scene, that there was at least another hour left because none of those questions were answered... jones appeared to have retired in the middle of an unsolved international drug war... wtf? don't see this movie.